Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“Love can be such a mysterious muse and seductress... spinning her magical web of stardust and emotional euphoria. True love sang her… — Jaeda DeWalt 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
A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being… — William Gay Copy Share Image
Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I'm thinking about the idea of poetic license. People say that about certain writers: "Oh, the grammar sucks, but it's just the… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
“I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“Why are we here? Well, we're peaking up the skirt of the ineffible now, and the answer is hidden by the poetic… — Tony Vigorito Copy Share Image
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life.” — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who… — W. H. Auden 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
I think of books as like a life raft. They save us from mundanity, they draw us to a poetic, multi-faceted world.… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime. — Joseph Cornell Copy Share Image
Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image