France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Do not wander in the deeps, Where the Shriker's shadow creeps. When he rises from beneath, Beware the Sharpness of his teeth.” — Janet Lee Carey Copy Share Image
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them;… — Stephane Mallarme 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
“...and the women spread their ntsaroz and sit on one side, the men on the other, like they are two different rivers… — NoViolet Bulawayo 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
“As the tired and battered Tango twelve backed slowly into its berth, the connection that a gnat had forged between his rig… — Daniel Thorman Copy Share Image
This film [ Blue is the Warmest Color] actually is the result of me talking with my producer Vincent [Maraval]. I gave… — Abdellatif Kechiche Copy Share Image
Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
From time to time, from the endless flow of our mental imagery, there emerges unexpectedly something that, vague though it may be,… — Leo Lionni Copy Share Image
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Not even I, in my original Spanish, am necessarily obliged to make exact quotations. I can do that or not, I can… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
For a long time, early industrializing countries were absorptive. They were endlessly able to absorb new labor inputs to keep expanding. This… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In… — Jenny Boully Copy Share Image
“They were properly mad in the Shakespearean sense, talking sense when you least expected it. In North London, where councillors once voted… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like… — William Klein Copy Share Image
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
How, then, has Obama been saddled with an image of being long on inspiration and short on details? The answer is that… — Howard Kurtz Copy Share Image
We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor. — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet?… — Ann Demeulemeester 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
“5.57am and I’m finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper.… — Charlotte Eriksson 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
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 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
Now that’s true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
“Kept dreaming of this spot she had on her neck, this tiny country. I wanted to visit, to paint a picture of… — Cath Crowley 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
Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live;… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in.… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image