My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure -… — Michel Leiris 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
It's always an interesting thing that happens between an artist and their work. People collapse the two, and for any artist, there… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“It is in the more muddled moments of my life, that i become painfully aware of my issues. When nothing is going… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic. — John Updike 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
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
One of my favorite French singers, Alain Bashung, was the expert at creating his own universe; no one knows what he's talking… — Thomas Mars Copy Share Image
“Descobri a minha estrela. Ela é bela e graciosa. Elegante e divina. O meu riso no inverno. Ela é corajosa e forte.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Film is a narrative format. Some fashion films try to retain some of the poetic mystery, but most of the time they… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being… — Jean Rouch Copy Share Image
I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem. — Eddie Shaw Copy Share Image
