The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting… — George Howe Colt Copy Share Image
I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“There were secrets there, the secrets of the ether all mankind is born from; of the blackness that holds our oldest memories… — Bryan Hall Copy Share Image
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their… — Chuck Eddy Copy Share Image
Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit.… — Claudia Shear Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning… — Salomon Bochner Copy Share Image
“So what is this love that comes with being married?" ... "Being fond of somebody? Being nice? Wanting them not to go… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I liked Jim Morrison a lot as a person. He was this very poetic character, and death was always on his mind.… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
“There was a strange exciting smell in the air - the smell of wine, cigar smoke, and perfume, mingled with the scent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
“Words do not always need a destination. We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings. Running around headless in… — David Foenkinos Copy Share Image
First of all, Craig Lucas' work, any of it, for any actor, is such good material. It's so alive in such a… — Marin Hinkle 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
I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for… — Henry David Thoreau 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
This gown, is it cut from shadow?" the general asked. "I can barely feel it between my fingers." Not for want of… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world,… — Simon Critchley 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
“In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I have a few minor rules for myself but I break them all the time. For example, when translating from Romance languages… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I think anyone who follows me knows how I react. It's not always poetic and perfect but neither am I. — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I'm sort of annoyed that some very basic things about poetic forms were not conveyed to me in the various poetry courses… — Juliana Spahr Copy Share Image
Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing. — Mike Gordon Copy Share Image
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image