Poetic Quote by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and…

— Clarence Thomas

“To be depressed is, very simply, to be stopped short in one’s life.”

— Maggie Scarf

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

— Juvenal

“She came back many days later. She saw him, unexpectedly, on a flat stretch of stone before her, by the side of the path.…

— Ayn Rand

The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his…

— Henry James

“When she stopped short just at the lower line of the apple tress, and stood for a moment with her face lifted, I chalked…

— Wallace Stegner

Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless,…

— Yukio Mishima

“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak On a…

— Pattiann Rogers

I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive…

— Jerome Rothenberg

Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting…

— Mel Brooks

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of…

— Goldwin Smith

“There was a strange exciting smell in the air - the smell of wine, cigar smoke, and perfume, mingled with the scent of the…

— Anonymous

Generous in spirit, richly poetic, and packed with memorable characters.

— Lawrence Millman

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,…

— Anonymous