“Compelling and poetic, Four Letters of Love spirits the reader away to a magical, mist-clad coastline, inhabited by a passionate people, and… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean,… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I will love you like the desert burns along the sun when they are together, and when you will be gone, just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
What Rob Brezsny does with words is grammarye, the Old English term for magic. With his strange brew of macho feminism and… — Antero Alli Copy Share Image
We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never… — William James Copy Share Image
This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Love can be so hauntingly beautiful, waking up past selves that have been wandering aimlessly through the corridors of our soul, for… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to… — Jeremy Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
“Ilaychi saathe malai mareli taj mari sunth ane kesar badam lasoteli coffee ni chuskio manta manta… meghdhanush na dhal par lapasta ane… — Jay Vasavada Copy Share Image
I think of Gord Downie voice as Whitman-esque. He has a poetic voice that contains multitudes, both the suppleness of the instrument… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
“It is in the more muddled moments of my life, that i become painfully aware of my issues. When nothing is going… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it,… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Film is a narrative format. Some fashion films try to retain some of the poetic mystery, but most of the time they… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“Some people were destined to have a significant other. Some people were destined for greatness. But few others were destined to be… — Chris Söderström Copy Share Image
The truth of religion comes from its symbolic rendering of man's moral experience; it proceeds intuitively and imaginatively. Its falsehood comes from… — Eugene Genovese Copy Share Image
Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large.… — William Walsh Copy Share Image
“For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning… — Molly O'Neill Copy Share Image
I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Light as feathers, as fleeting as Zephyr, one moment they breathed pink, the next they faded. Cherry blossoms were as much an… — Alice Poon Copy Share Image
Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground… — Charles Addams Copy Share Image
Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight,… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer.… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
![“Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.” quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/051/ludwig-wittgenstein-582_december_schiller-writes-in-a-letter-to-goethe-17_1906986.png)
