Form Quote by Augusta Jane Evans Download Open image “Poetry is the purest form of insanity.” — Augusta Jane Evans ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Form Insanity Poetry Poetry is
Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of… — Augusta Jane Evans Copy Share Image
It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood… — Augusta Jane Evans Copy Share Image
Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary. — Augusta Jane Evans Copy Share Image
If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's… — Augusta Jane Evans Copy Share Image
Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls. — Augusta Jane Evans Copy Share Image
Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, / And find in tears a sad relief! — Augusta Jane Evans Copy Share Image
The Copa del Rey is a different competition. It is football in its purest form and is different from the continuity of the league. — Michael Laudrup Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a golden bonding of patience and love will help form a person into an exquisite masterpiece. It is as if people have to be broken before… — Steve Goodier Copy Share
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
