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Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack… — June Jordan
Wine is poetry in a bottle. — Clifton Fadiman
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their… — Ernest Hemingway
...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the… — Maya Angelou
When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life. — Sigmund Freud
About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to create new digital tools for magic - tools that could eventually be… — Marco Tempest
An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass… — Eric Cantona
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. — William Wordsworth
The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it. — Charles Dudley Warner
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who… — Benjamin Haydon
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less… — Charles Dudley Warner
It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and… — Jonah Lehrer
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy. — Louis Kronenberger
The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description of… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting. — Leonardo da Vinci
.. every single corner and aspect of our lives, every single choice, will be different if we take the invitation of this [Rumi's] poetry to… — Andrew Harvey
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. — Eugenio Montale
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. — Norman O. Brown
Why should poetry have to make sense? — Charlie Chaplin
There is no separate art of life. If you know how to allow poetry, if you know how to allow dance, if you know how… — Rajneesh
Everything that is of authentic value in life has arisen out of meditation. There is no other way. Meditation is the mother of art, music,… — Rajneesh
The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry… — Rollo May
I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists… — Georges Braque

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