America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all. — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never! — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I was a huge movie watcher, but I really loved 'Kenan & Kel,' 'Rugrats,' 'Doug,' & 'Catdog.' I was also into drama… — Raven Goodwin Copy Share Image
The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“Bracy sighed, "So this wasn't the heart...it was the head." "Bracy don't try to be poetic; it doesn't suit you.” — Nicole Sager Copy Share Image
“I found it easier to stare out into the infinite blackness, away from the fire burning itself out in his eyes.” — Heather Heffner Copy Share Image
we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful. — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
“The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I see a great lack of stories around. I bought six literary magazines and looked through them to see what people were… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
English has always been my musical language. When I started writing songs when I was 13 or 14, I started writing in… — Olivia Merilahti Copy Share Image
When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I will not listen to your verse on an empty stomach!" declared the Vicomte. "You have no soul," said Philippe sadly. "But… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself… — Orhan Pamuk 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
I have a notebook that I take with me everywhere. I free-write in it when there are situations that I know I… — Agent M Copy Share Image
At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic. — Mark Gonzales Copy Share Image
“...the problem with poetic justice is that it never knows when to stop.” — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“Scatter as a prayer escaping my lips... as orchids blooming in clouds.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
