I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two… — Pierre Reverdy Copy Share Image
The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
On the red carpet, I need to be protected. When I wear a Chanel dress, I feel like I've earned the right… — Rinko Kikuchi Copy Share Image
The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of… — Paul Delvaux Copy Share Image
When Reason Breaks is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily Dickinson… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Patricia [Rozema] is really special, and she really worked hard to make the environment and the landscapes' natural beauty come alive. She… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“For the first time in a very long time, Hazel felt the swell of emotion as a man entered her kingdom and… — Robertson Tait Copy Share Image
“Descobri a minha estrela. Ela é bela e graciosa. Elegante e divina. O meu riso no inverno. Ela é corajosa e forte.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth,… — D. M. Thomas Copy Share Image
Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It almost felt like we were driving in our own world--like we were inside a snow globe--and there was music and sunlight… — Melissa C. Walker Copy Share Image
When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans,… — Gabor Mate Copy Share Image
A dance feels finished to me when I suddenly see this moment in the movement that feels like closure and makes me… — Dana Tai Soon Burgess Copy Share Image
Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way… — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
“Poetic style, when address'd to the Soul, is less definite form, outline, sculpture, and becomes vista, music, half-tints, and even less than… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Blinded by the opaque veil of mortality, her eyes are always sealed, like a tomb She wants to know- wants to feel… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
It's always an interesting thing that happens between an artist and their work. People collapse the two, and for any artist, there… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Men, learn to speak blessings over your wife and you will see that woman rise to a new level. She will respond… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“Mistress Creation keeps calling my name... i long for her, and she, for me... we will be reunited soon. In the interim,… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I like that cartoons are now not only animated drawings, they are a way of doing something: 'That song sounds very cartoony',… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image