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From time to time, from the endless flow of our mental imagery, there emerges unexpectedly something that, vague though it may be, seems to carry… — Leo Lionni
Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic. — Scarlett Thomas
Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing… — Yehuda Amichai
You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful… — Witold Gombrowicz
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or… — Paul Lockhart
America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? — Azar Nafisi
Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. — Aime Cesaire
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis
Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more… — Joseph Cornell
The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news. I… — William Klein
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting… — Barnett Newman
Oh my, I've just discovered what science shows us about our humble but spectacular place in the universe, and I have to say: it is… — Julia Sweeney
Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man for… — Margaret Visser
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to… — Story Musgrave
Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms… — Bruce R. McConkie
What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American… — Nia Vardalos
My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to… — Wayne Thiebaud
I wanted the bike to be able to go over all kinds of terrains and especially infinite and poetic territories, — Philippe Starck
O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood! — Walter Scott
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the… — Walter Pater
But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations,… — Adam Zagajewski
Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams. — William Cowper
All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation. — Unknown Author
A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants to dream well… — Gaston Bachelard
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures. — George Eliot

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