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Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it… — Friedrich Schiller
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. — Gaston Bachelard
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the… — Salvatore Quasimodo
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme. — Stephane Mallarme
Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying to create. Our… — Jules Fisher
I have a large personal collection of pictures. For every project, I choose images. Usually I don't do this until I've done an extensive script… — Christine Jones
It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its… — William Kennedy
Eric Peters' music is at the top of what gets played around my house, in my car and while I am running. Â I am… — Unknown Author
Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow. — Unknown Author
I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about… — Noah Cicero
The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or less… — Pierre Reverdy
A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world that… — Niall Williams
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked… — Salvatore Quasimodo
Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase… — Lawrence Durrell
Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but… — Paul Delvaux
LOVE: Deception of the flesh and damage to the spirit. Disease of the soul, atrophy of the brain, weakening of the heart, corruption of the… — Renzo Novatore
Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In a world of… — Unknown Author
Moon Phase Astrology is a valuable resource on a neglected topic. Through the use of descriptive and poetic titles, insightful text, and inspiring historic quotes,… — Christopher Penczak
I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with… — Unknown Author
Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish… — John Gierach
Living by synchronicity isn't merely about getting messages. It is about growing the poetic consciousness that allows us to taste and touch what rhymes and… — Robert Moss
No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this… — Richard Dawkins
To most magicians, cards themselves are marvels...For one thing, they feel special in your hand. Touching them, holding them, shuffling - the whole process is… — David Blaine

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