Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

— Robert E. Howard

There's poetry in the real world; science is the poetry of reality.

— Anonymous

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

— Caryl Churchill

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

— Ezra Pound

Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters.

— Laurence Overmire

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

— Richard Dawkins

“What an austere landscape! Borluut was alone, with nothing but the sky and water. No footsteps, apart from his own, marked the immense expanse,…

— Georges Rodenbach

I'm not an austere person.

— Paul Farmer

“Austere government buildings lined the edges, standing in the square an individual felt like a speck of dust.”

— Sylvia Vetta

Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons whose devotion is of…

— Charles De Saint-Evremond

I am an austere president.

— Jose Mujica

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium…

— Jonathan Miller

Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no…

— Tim Curry

My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an interesting villain…

— Charles Dance

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

— Sally Phillips