“How stark everything became, at the end, all the wishes for one's children distilled by the world's swift cruelty into the desperate… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“They peered at him with their shining honey warm molasses-brown eyes. Their smiles, the white smiles pinned to their faces, were wide… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
I think Visions of Cody is the most radical book in terms of poetic stretch and the way Jack Kerouac is able… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?' — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
Its so funny the way I get poetic when I am single but when I am in a relationship I suck at… — Chris Copy Share Image
I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references. — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. — John Crowe Ransom 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
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
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 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
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
Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime. — Joseph Cornell Copy Share Image
I think of books as like a life raft. They save us from mundanity, they draw us to a poetic, multi-faceted world.… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
“An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life.” — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Why are we here? Well, we're peaking up the skirt of the ineffible now, and the answer is hidden by the poetic… — Tony Vigorito Copy Share Image
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
“I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“So I stared out at that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
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