It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality. — Mark Gonzales Copy Share Image
“Amateurs… They’re like of a pack of clay pigeons to the shotgun they call poetic justice.” — Martin Reed Copy Share Image
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
Not all was well, even in the hell, some faces were gloomy, some souls so sad. *senora* — Adgjm/ptw Copy Share Image
“She, silent starlight, drifts beyond the reach of words, anchored in still skies.” — L. Rose Copy Share Image
“Thus I did with Susan as with most other things in my earlier days, dipping her image into my mind and coloring… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
“I love to feel the temperature drop and the wind increase just before a thunderstorm. Then I climb in bed with the… — Amanda Mosher Copy Share Image
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
“Markings in dry clay disappear Only when the clay is soft again. Scars upon the self disappear Only when one becomes soft… — Deng Ming-Dao Copy Share Image
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches… — Theo James Copy Share Image
Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
From time to time, from the endless flow of our mental imagery, there emerges unexpectedly something that, vague though it may be,… — Leo Lionni Copy Share Image
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Not even I, in my original Spanish, am necessarily obliged to make exact quotations. I can do that or not, I can… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The simulator is the stage in-between television and virtual reality, a moment, a phase. The simulator is a moment that leads to… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Almost everything that's happened in my poetry is what you might call organic. I don't do much preconceiving. The only consistent plan… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical,… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
“{ Letter from Fawcett to the great Robert Ingersoll , 1894 } I do so wish, that, in all these big questions,… — Edgar Fawcett Copy Share Image
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love Tennessee Williams pieces; they are so poetic and I love period pieces. — Richard Hatch Copy Share Image
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“My heart lurches, as if it wants to leave my awful body and go make a home in her.” — Chloe Michelle Howarth Copy Share Image
“The displacement of water is equal to the something of something.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
