As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“I found a night’s sky full of stars In your cinematic eyes And heard a symphony In your laughter.” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The displacement of water is equal to the something of something.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“My heart lurches, as if it wants to leave my awful body and go make a home in her.” — Chloe Michelle Howarth Copy Share Image
I definitely had some heated but extremely productive chats with screenwriter Justin Monjo, but while it's my story, it's their movie, so… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
Your date will not be impressed by you throwing up on her brand-new shoes, as you spout poetic babblings that are meaningful… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be? — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?" "Are you calling me stupid?" "Yes, but in a more poetic way!" "Well,… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“For us, everything was a performance.” A small, private smile catches me off guard and I glance down, hoping he won’t see… — M.L. Rio Copy Share Image
The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor. — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
I don't think my lyrics go so well when I try to sound poetic. Some people do that really well. If I… — Chaz Bundick Copy Share Image
“I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
“desperately knocking against the blind little world, i loosened one of its planks, opening a window to a new, wider world. There,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“He liked the way the obsidian reflected his light, the way its slick surfaces caught fire as he passed. Of course, he… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm drawing onto a computer directly, sometimes I'm drawing on paper , so I can't really talk about drafts. It's just… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier.… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Amateurs… They’re like of a pack of clay pigeons to the shotgun they call poetic justice.” — Martin Reed 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
Not all was well, even in the hell, some faces were gloomy, some souls so sad. *senora* — Adgjm/ptw Copy Share Image
It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality. — Mark Gonzales Copy Share Image
Generous in spirit, richly poetic, and packed with memorable characters. — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
