These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Our house is quiet, small and plain, and yet its rooms run far and wide. A hundred pencils, swift as rain, writing… — Nancy Willard Copy Share Image
They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche… — Dean Wareham 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
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
[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
“When that part of the woman meets with a man, all the flowers in the world suddenly bloom! All the birds of… — Kim Dong Hwa Copy Share Image
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and… — Xiaolu Guo 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
I will not listen to your verse on an empty stomach!" declared the Vicomte. "You have no soul," said Philippe sadly. "But… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“I told you I’m poetic, right? The truth is, I wasn’t always. Not until this moment. She’s magnificent—angelic—gorgeous. Pick a word, any… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
What Rob Brezsny does with words is grammarye, the Old English term for magic. With his strange brew of macho feminism and… — Antero Alli Copy Share Image
Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
I will love you like the desert burns along the sun when they are together, and when you will be gone, just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean,… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“Compelling and poetic, Four Letters of Love spirits the reader away to a magical, mist-clad coastline, inhabited by a passionate people, and… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right;… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Living by synchronicity isn't merely about getting messages. It is about growing the poetic consciousness that allows us to taste and touch… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. and, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
France at the dinner table in faraway places; but here, among ourselves, in the family, let us face the facts: France is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
In the documentary impulse, two species of 'fact' exist side by side: one is coolly objective and the other is fraught, diverse… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
They use the simple back and forth, the same, old rhythm That a baby can pick up, and join, right with 'em.… — Kool Keith Copy Share Image