Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“The air moved slowly around his body, somehow tangible, gold flaked, every dust mote a lantern.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Do not pollute my perfectly acceptable figurative speech with irrelevant facts!” — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
My visions are realistic. Nothing is figurative I can wish it into existence. God want this nigga to live. Blunt big as… — Nas Copy Share Image
I used to be very figurative and also just kind of scared to talk about the way I felt in a literal… — SZA Copy Share Image
“I also want the figurative like a painter who only paints abstract colors but wants to show that he does so because… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
“The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in… — Sean William Scott Copy Share Image
I feel like in the reading I did when I was growing up, and also in the way that people talk and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“I admire someone who in the literal sense can say, 'If it is broken, I can fix it. If it's lost I… — Jennifer Varnadore Copy Share Image
“The literal sense of the author was "creation is the orderly act of a loving Creator God." What the modern reader often… — Mark Shea Copy Share Image
“It will not, however, affect one tiny bit the question of whether the text has a literal meaning because—mark this—every biblical text… — Mark Shea Copy Share Image
