Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
“His green eyes blazed with desire; such a different look than I'd known before. Chase had studied me, reading my feelings. Tucker… — Kristen Simmons Copy Share Image
“One thing all the stories agreed on: King Robert was dead. The bells in the seven towers of the Great Sept of… — George R.R. Martin 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
I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live;… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
I see a great lack of stories around. I bought six literary magazines and looked through them to see what people were… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“If not for the rats you could crawl beneath a bush. A bush. A bench. The alliterative universe. Rats too can pass… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“Love can be so hauntingly beautiful, waking up past selves that have been wandering aimlessly through the corridors of our soul, for… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
The truth of religion comes from its symbolic rendering of man's moral experience; it proceeds intuitively and imaginatively. Its falsehood comes from… — Eugene Genovese Copy Share Image
Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“If you want the naked beauty of my vulnerability, you have to have the strength to share the burden of, the private… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?" "Are you calling me stupid?" "Yes, but in a more poetic way!" "Well,… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning… — Salomon Bochner 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
“... And when the giant clam opened you were standing there dressed only in kelps and weeds of the ocean. And you… — Matt Suddain Copy Share Image
Everyone accepts the abstraction of Bach. My work aspires to the same kind of abstraction, which is so engaging that you're distracted… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
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