“Markings in dry clay disappear Only when the clay is soft again. Scars upon the self disappear Only when one becomes soft… — Deng Ming-Dao Copy Share Image
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Thus I did with Susan as with most other things in my earlier days, dipping her image into my mind and coloring… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Before seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“If you want the naked beauty of my vulnerability, you have to have the strength to share the burden of, the private… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic production. We have been at… — Casey Spooner Copy Share Image
Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up… — Giambattista Vico 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
LOVE: Deception of the flesh and damage to the spirit. Disease of the soul, atrophy of the brain, weakening of the heart,… — Renzo Novatore 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
I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand… — John Muir 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
“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure… — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
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
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
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
I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying… — Jules Fisher Copy Share Image
“In the midst of a foggy field, the answers are hidden But the impossible journey deems them forbidden.” — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“Ere morning the storm had passed; and day broke through a cloudless east. Even if the sleeve of Aoyagi hid from her… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Life ain't a concept. Music is not a concept. My titles are poetic abstractions of something that is with me all the… — Merzbow Copy Share Image
Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
