The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality. — Mark Gonzales Copy Share Image
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“Amateurs… They’re like of a pack of clay pigeons to the shotgun they call poetic justice.” — Martin Reed Copy Share Image
Not all was well, even in the hell, some faces were gloomy, some souls so sad. *senora* — Adgjm/ptw Copy Share Image
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement. — John Locke Copy Share Image
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
“She is too perfect to be known by fragments. No mean brick shall be a specimen of the building of my palace.” — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Our language was even taken from us. The Irish Gaelic language was outlawed and the religion was outlawed. Hence the religion later… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I wrote an article not so long ago that was published in the Los Angeles Times, and I think I titled it… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have a few minor rules for myself but I break them all the time. For example, when translating from Romance languages… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
“What is Poetry (My Sonnet, My Rules) Any gargoyle can google the definition of a sonnet, Any robot can write and rhyme… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“The poetic heart is not to be trusted with long-term decision-making.” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“The ocean turned feral. No longer a cradle, it grew claws and fangs.” — Deni Ar Dente Copy Share Image
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.” — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
