Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“You hung around the tattered edges of my soul, that's where you preferred to be...” — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference. — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
A dance feels finished to me when I suddenly see this moment in the movement that feels like closure and makes me… — Dana Tai Soon Burgess Copy Share Image
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Don’t take yourself too seriously. Take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worry your ass off. Have iron-clad confidence, but… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground… — Charles Addams Copy Share Image
First of all, Craig Lucas' work, any of it, for any actor, is such good material. It's so alive in such a… — Marin Hinkle Copy Share Image
The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I don’t know what I’ll do if I fall in love with him.” “If you fall, let him catch you.” — Renée Carlino Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in.… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight,… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
