I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“I found a night’s sky full of stars In your cinematic eyes And heard a symphony In your laughter.” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals. — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
“there's something wrong with my ears I can't shut them like I can shut my eyes” — Henry Hoke Copy Share Image
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
“Ere morning the storm had passed; and day broke through a cloudless east. Even if the sleeve of Aoyagi hid from her… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying… — Jules Fisher Copy Share Image
“In the midst of a foggy field, the answers are hidden But the impossible journey deems them forbidden.” — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams,… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting… — George Howe Colt Copy Share Image
Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements,… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
LOVE: Deception of the flesh and damage to the spirit. Disease of the soul, atrophy of the brain, weakening of the heart,… — Renzo Novatore Copy Share Image
I have poetic failures all the time. Many failed poems. I try not to publish those, though some have slipped into each… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“As the tired and battered Tango twelve backed slowly into its berth, the connection that a gnat had forged between his rig… — Daniel Thorman Copy Share Image
This film [ Blue is the Warmest Color] actually is the result of me talking with my producer Vincent [Maraval]. I gave… — Abdellatif Kechiche Copy Share Image
Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm drawing onto a computer directly, sometimes I'm drawing on paper , so I can't really talk about drafts. It's just… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier.… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“People are surprisingly poetic. Especially when they’re not trying to be.” — Lewis Morris Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is. — Pink Copy Share Image
A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image