We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
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Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be?… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Instead of answering your question directly I shall quote from the Indian poet Tagore: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy/… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
I find it very hard to talk about my relationships, whether it's a girlfriend, sister or just a friend... I can't bring… — Kunal Kapoor Copy Share Image
When my father got the letter from Satyajit Ray saying I could work with him, I had to give up 'Saat Hindustani.'… — Tinnu Anand Copy Share Image
The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
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Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon,… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
This is something that I dream about: to live films, to arrive at the point at which one can live for films,… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
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In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
A true poet is more than just a man who can write a poem with a pen. A true poet writes poetry… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry,… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in what John Keats called negative capability: the trait or practice that allows a poet to remain in uncertainties,… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
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