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
“He who has not been bitten by the serpents of light and snapped at by the wolves of darkness will always be… — Khalil Gibran 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
“Feelings and emotion ran through my veins like a hurricane. And that's when everything began to look like poetry. —You look like… — Altruistic Copy Share Image
We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry,… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic… — Heather McHugh Copy Share Image
“Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.” — Rumi Copy Share Image
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I have poetic failures all the time. Many failed poems. I try not to publish those, though some have slipped into each… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“There are temples to a variety of gods all over the world, but hers is the only one where I care to… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements,… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
I cannot pursue my architecture without considering the minimization of energy consumption, simple and direct technologies, a respect for site, climate, place… — Glenn Murcutt Copy Share Image
Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals. — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning… — Molly O'Neill Copy Share Image
Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet.… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I like that cartoons are now not only animated drawings, they are a way of doing something: 'That song sounds very cartoony',… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. — James Broughton Copy Share Image