At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Feelings and emotion ran through my veins like a hurricane. And that's when everything began to look like poetry. —You look like… — Altruistic Copy Share Image
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
“Like a kite, carried by the wind, he followed her into the fluffy white clouds of her imagination. He didn't think her… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I thought every other kid was like me. I'd watch films and act them out on my own and wish I could… — Kimberley Nixon Copy Share Image
Eric Peters' music is at the top of what gets played around my house, in my car and while I am running.… — Jill Phillips Copy Share Image
The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in… — Davies Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Solitude became, for me, an interesting mosaic of broken pieces, a place where the neglected parts of myself get collected—for better and… — Laurie A. Helgoe Copy Share Image
New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches… — Theo James Copy Share Image
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Here they are, all in one place. Circle back to them when you need some poetic shine. It is not revolutions and… — Boris Pasternak 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
Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
To most magicians, cards themselves are marvels...For one thing, they feel special in your hand. Touching them, holding them, shuffling - the… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
In some cultures they don't name their babies right away. They wait until they see how the child develops. Like in Dances… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is… — Warren Winiarski Copy Share Image
I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation &… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
I don't think you can strategize to be poetic and neither can you strategize to be funny. It is not a tool,… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
“The Romans eat much Garlic and the Hungarians more while in the Markets of Sidon lovelorn Men pay Ransoms for a Jelly… — Lawrence Norfolk Copy Share Image
Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
“Still I considered the M16 my bestest of besties. Always by my side, even at night, burrowed into my sleeping bag with… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is wild and sweet. She likes purple flowers. She loves the sun and the wind and the night sky. She carries… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
“2 to 1 2 hearts 1 beat 2 lips will meet 2 birds 1 stone 2 never b alone 2 wills 1… — Clarissa Clemens Copy Share Image
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry,… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
I just love when a movie takes a break and gives you a poetic moment, but sometimes it's good when they just… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
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