Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never! — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all. — Max Barry Copy Share Image
America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“His eyes are a midnight moment filled with memories, the only windows into my world.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. — Matthew Arnold 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
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
“Markings in dry clay disappear Only when the clay is soft again. Scars upon the self disappear Only when one becomes soft… — Deng Ming-Dao Copy Share Image
It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of. — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
“But the future lay open, a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities with a small quick heartbeat, delicate and impatient” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Before seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood… — Pauline Kael 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
Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Eric Peters' music is at the top of what gets played around my house, in my car and while I am running.… — Jill Phillips Copy Share Image
“Solitude became, for me, an interesting mosaic of broken pieces, a place where the neglected parts of myself get collected—for better and… — Laurie A. Helgoe Copy Share Image
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that… — John Constable Copy Share Image
The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All… — Hans-Georg Gadamer 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
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
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
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
There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I've noticed that there can be a visceral reaction to strong statements about poetry, as if anyone who has an opinion and… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“...the problem with poetic justice is that it never knows when to stop.” — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image