I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.” — Rumi Copy Share Image
My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't. — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“You hung around the tattered edges of my soul, that's where you preferred to be...” — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis Copy Share Image
It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of. — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
“But the future lay open, a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities with a small quick heartbeat, delicate and impatient” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I thought every other kid was like me. I'd watch films and act them out on my own and wish I could… — Kimberley Nixon Copy Share Image
The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
“Like a kite, carried by the wind, he followed her into the fluffy white clouds of her imagination. He didn't think her… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“I know, I know…there’s something cliché about that. The heroine initially wanting to clobber a protagonist male, but later realizing that he’s… — Angela N. Blount Copy Share Image
Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I've noticed that there can be a visceral reaction to strong statements about poetry, as if anyone who has an opinion and… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
For a long time, early industrializing countries were absorptive. They were endlessly able to absorb new labor inputs to keep expanding. This… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In… — Jenny Boully Copy Share Image
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Failure is nothing more than a prelude to success—and a poetic one at that.” — Michael Parrish DuDell Copy Share Image
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“What can I say? I'm taken; I love how enthralled she remains by this festival of living.” — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image