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For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of… — Ruth Bernhard
Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is… — Reuben Fine
The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry. — Louis Pasteur
Poetry is devil's wine. — Saint Augustine
Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue. — Charles Baudelaire
Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue. — Charles Baudelaire
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously… — Jean de la Bruyere
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have… — Charles Darwin
If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person… — Michel Leiris
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him,… — Khalil Gibran
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. — Charles Simic
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — Aristotle
There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the labor… — Richard Livingstone
Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is… — Viktor E. Frankl
On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel? — Mary Oliver
There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us… — Billy Joel
[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug. — Mark Twain
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. — Niels Bohr
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power. — Paul Engle
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry — Ted Nelson
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the… — Leo Tolstoy
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about… — John Keats
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice. — George Will
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt… — Patti Smith

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