You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves… — Nas Copy Share Image
“faces pressed against the pane, full of little, content with sawdust tears.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In everything I write, I seek out something which I term, 'the music'. This is an energy centre which I cannot define… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
It is absolutely vital to preserve a space where the mind, by means of poetic thinking, can move in a free, even… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it. — Lights Copy Share Image
They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“He liked the way the obsidian reflected his light, the way its slick surfaces caught fire as he passed. Of course, he… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality. — Mark Gonzales Copy Share Image
“The dust began to swirl up in an eerie, hypnotic dance. The nanophase iron particles, responding to the intense magnetic fields, created… — Daniel Thorman Copy Share Image
Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing... formless intelligences but... it does not do so for the sake… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things .… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“The displacement of water is equal to the something of something.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience… — Hayley Atwell 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
Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Not even I, in my original Spanish, am necessarily obliged to make exact quotations. I can do that or not, I can… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
