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
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
“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
To me, the most poetic and intelligent way to bring up a subject is by showing very simply who you are and… — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience. — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
The photographer must be absorbent, like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment...His technique should be like an… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem. — Eddie Shaw Copy Share Image
Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play. — Frederick Sommer 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
I thought every other kid was like me. I'd watch films and act them out on my own and wish I could… — Kimberley Nixon 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
Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
“Like a kite, carried by the wind, he followed her into the fluffy white clouds of her imagination. He didn't think her… — Jaeda DeWalt 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
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
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence,… — James Emanuel 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
When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I… — Patti Smith 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
No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged -… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
“Scatter as a prayer escaping my lips... as orchids blooming in clouds.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
It's very rare to find scripts that are poetic and very romantic. — Harshvardhan Kapoor Copy Share Image
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
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