Nature of Beauty Quote by Carlie Download Open image “What's it take to bceome a sublime expounder of prose like yourself?” — Carlie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nature of Beauty
It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading into one's… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
“I know that, like many other writers, I have many faults, for I am the first to be dissatisfied with myself . . . At the moment when I am trying to review my life's work, I often realize with pain that I have literally failed to express one-twentieth part of what I had wanted to, and perhaps could have… — Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Copy Share
I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power. — Jean-Francois Millet Copy Share Image
Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things you'll ever have to do is to stop loving someone because they've stopped loving you. — Carlie Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
It's empowering to find a workout that builds strength and grace. — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring disappears, imagination disappears, past and future disappear, or take desire out and effort disappears and time disappears and ego disappears. Just take one thing out of the gestalt and the whole gestalt simply disappears; it cannot… — Rajneesh Copy Share
“...The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he were singing… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever. — John Owen Copy Share Image