In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“His green eyes blazed with desire; such a different look than I'd known before. Chase had studied me, reading my feelings. Tucker… — Kristen Simmons Copy Share Image
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
“... And when the giant clam opened you were standing there dressed only in kelps and weeds of the ocean. And you… — Matt Suddain Copy Share Image
I have a large personal collection of pictures. For every project, I choose images. Usually I don't do this until I've done… — Christine Jones Copy Share Image
In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Adoration is not some fervent spiritual or poetic exercise reserved for a chosen few. I believe the human race will die out… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
My view is that "A Small Oak Tree Runs Red" is about putting people 'on the record,' who otherwise would have been… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
“The velvet tapestry of the night curved from horizon to horizon, flecked with thousands of tiny stars. There seemed all the more… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
I don't think you can strategize to be poetic and neither can you strategize to be funny. It is not a tool,… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
“The Romans eat much Garlic and the Hungarians more while in the Markets of Sidon lovelorn Men pay Ransoms for a Jelly… — Lawrence Norfolk Copy Share Image
Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
To most magicians, cards themselves are marvels...For one thing, they feel special in your hand. Touching them, holding them, shuffling - the… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is… — Warren Winiarski Copy Share Image
In some cultures they don't name their babies right away. They wait until they see how the child develops. Like in Dances… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation &… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry,… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I just love when a movie takes a break and gives you a poetic moment, but sometimes it's good when they just… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
“Still I considered the M16 my bestest of besties. Always by my side, even at night, burrowed into my sleeping bag with… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is wild and sweet. She likes purple flowers. She loves the sun and the wind and the night sky. She carries… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“2 to 1 2 hearts 1 beat 2 lips will meet 2 birds 1 stone 2 never b alone 2 wills 1… — Clarissa Clemens Copy Share Image
The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
On the red carpet, I need to be protected. When I wear a Chanel dress, I feel like I've earned the right… — Rinko Kikuchi Copy Share Image
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two… — Pierre Reverdy Copy Share Image
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