Poetry is perhaps the oldest art form. We can go back to an age-old idea of naming things, the Adamic impulse -… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“In Tar Baby , the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority? — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin. Compassion without courage is not genuine. You may have a compassionate thought… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I find that I'm not as worried anymore about what other people think. That's a comfortable place to be. And I'm starting… — Sally Field Copy Share Image
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The "we" voice is rare, and the communal impulse of the "we" is interesting to me. — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
I want to create work that extends beyond myself because I always thought it was a way to change the general rules… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
Be very focused. Do your homework so your research and claims are unassailable. Make sure it is bulletproof and then make sure… — Amy Ziering Copy Share Image
The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
I can start with the idea of taking until you can take off, through the idea that all of my writing foregrounds… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
