A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Failure is nothing more than a prelude to success—and a poetic one at that.” — Michael Parrish DuDell Copy Share Image
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
I think you can't do any action without in some way paying homage to John Woo. He's the guy who just invented… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“She smiled up at him. 'The edge of dark. I love the way you say things here.' 'It's just talk to folks… — Ann H. Gabhart 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
“Poetry is the language of the soul; Poetic Prose, the language of my heart. Each line must flow as in a song,… — Lori R. Lopez Copy Share Image
“Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles… — Tennessee Williams 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
Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
I like to put my iPad on the window and leave it there for however long the journey is, so that I'm… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
“Someone was playing piano nearby and the music drifted slowly in and out of my mind like the ebb and flow of… — Chaim Potok 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
In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive,… — Lynne Truss 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
“And from the top of the building I look down upon the world and see the crowds of people in the city… — Emma Rose Kraus Copy Share Image
“Bože moj... Prošao sam kroz Vukovar mnogo puta...(...) Kad sam dolazio sa zapadne strane, iz Italije, sa mora, iz Zagreba ili Ljubljane,… — Đorđe Balašević Copy Share Image
Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every… — Guy Clark 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
“faces pressed against the pane, full of little, content with sawdust tears.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“You hung around the tattered edges of my soul, that's where you preferred to be...” — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.” — Rumi Copy Share Image
“My dream was to be a scientist, but it turns out to be poetic scientific awakener.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“I don’t know what I’ll do if I fall in love with him.” “If you fall, let him catch you.” — Renée Carlino Copy Share Image
Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
