“I am emptied through shallow breaths. Muscles tighten in my chest. I think I am a fool dressed up in king’s chamber,… — Zaineb Afzal Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I muse about how wonderful it would be if I could string all my dreams together into one continuous life, a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic moment or romantic bone in O-Dog's body. — Larenz Tate Copy Share Image
“One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
“Love encompasses so much, reaches so far, and heals so deeply, that any attempt to describe it, no matter how poetic, only… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and… — Jawaharlal Nehru 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
You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves… — Nas Copy Share Image
Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic… — Heather McHugh 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
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
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and… — Joseph Campbell 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
“{ Letter from Fawcett to the great Robert Ingersoll , 1894 } I do so wish, that, in all these big questions,… — Edgar Fawcett 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
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
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
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
“Nema tih reči koje mogu nadomestiti šibanje godina u lice, ni od najbolje priče ne može se isplesti mreža za hvatanje vremena...” — Đorđe Balašević Copy Share Image
There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call "poetic reality." That's something you see played out in… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
“I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnessed the… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“hough we travel the whole over to find the perfect match,we must carry it with us a light or it's playing hard… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“some winters will never melt some summers will never freeze and some things will only ... live in poems.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“He felt the need for something which he could attach his floating heart to; the heart that tugged at his side; the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is… — Mari Evans Copy Share Image
“He who has not been bitten by the serpents of light and snapped at by the wolves of darkness will always be… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose… — William-Adolphe Bouguereau Copy Share Image
One of my favorite French singers, Alain Bashung, was the expert at creating his own universe; no one knows what he's talking… — Thomas Mars Copy Share Image
“In the park, the bright colors of the children's clothing, the timbre of their young voices, lowered and darkened.” — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
