A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson 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
There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
“When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say… — Francis Ponge Copy Share Image
They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Tonight love and hate met in St. Louis. And love outnumbered the hate, in poetic thousands. Hate left. But love stayed. +… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“If I could show you how my heart is flowing with gratitude and love, I'd send you pictures, I swear.” — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
“One of the most connective things we can do for ourselves, is to become world travelers of our own internal landscapes. What… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well.… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I believe that all women of working ages and physical capacity, regardless of income, should be expected to earn their livings either… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys.… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
“and I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that… — Tony Hoagland 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
“Gargoyles sat on the battlements- lean they were and the same hideous damp grey as the stone. They looked at her with… — Meredith Ann Pierce Copy Share Image
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Pain is subtle. He has cold grey fingers. His voice is horse from crying & screaming... When people try to avoid him,… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
“As an artist, i live in fantasy and flirt with reality. I'm an emotional magician of sorts. I paint my feelings onto… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation,… — Linda Gregerson Copy Share Image
It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet… — Arca 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
I need to look back on my poetic ventures, make sense of them as a whole, and move forward... and to experiment… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free. — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures. — Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful. — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
“I found it easier to stare out into the infinite blackness, away from the fire burning itself out in his eyes.” — Heather Heffner Copy Share Image
“The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
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