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The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger… — Jean Genet
They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulating a second,… — Michel de Certeau
The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in his character, and… — Davies Gilbert
I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length… — James Fenton
Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of… — James Fenton
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative. — Howard Barker
Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic, describing the… — Hayley Atwell
It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of. — Michel Gondry
The poetic side of me is Scottish. — Annie Lennox
Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?" "Are you calling me stupid?" "Yes, but in a more poetic way!" "Well, here's a poem… — Colleen Houck
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance… — Linton Kwesi Johnson
New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an… — Theo James
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image. — Rachel Kushner
I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties. — Fernando Pessoa
And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural. — Frank O'Hara
I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind… — Alexander McQueen
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. — Paul Lockhart
With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to… — Jeremy Robert Johnson
Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic… — Richard Dawkins
Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love. — Oliver Sacks
And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to… — Rajneesh
Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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