Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up. — Alex Scally Copy Share Image
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
Him & Her are born directly from the ideas behind the Panton Chair. An evolution of the hermaphroditic original, declined into the… — Fabio Novembre Copy Share Image
The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
I was working on a piece for one of the things I was dancing to and I needed to have original music.… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as… — Sophia Lyon Fahs Copy Share Image
Just because you can make an album on a laptop computer in your back bedroom doesn't mean it's going to be any… — Horace Panter Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
The Bible affects everybody's life who is a Christian, from the middle class in Europe to the peasant in Africa and Asia.… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
I pay homage and respect to Bobby Womack [for Black History Month] knowing that he passed last year... Him being one of… — Big K.R.I.T Copy Share Image
The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain that altar fire - and it was an altar fire… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I've played a bunch of different versions of Walter [from "Fringe"]... I loved it when he was being random, which was probably… — John Noble Copy Share Image
We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
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