Assurance Quote by Donald Hall Download Open image “The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.” — Donald Hall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assurance Confidence Feels Integrity Pleasure Poetry Reading
“This observation, understanding, and appreciation, when combined with the excellence of poetic expression, produce the best poetry, steeped in poetic truth and served with… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity.… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“When a long-desired baby is born, what joy! More happiness than we find in sex, more than we take in success, revenge, or wealth.… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“The tree is burning on the autumn noon That builds each year the leaf and bark again. Though frost will strip it raw and… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“When I was sixteen I read ten books a week: E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Henry James, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck. I thought I progressed… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses, roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs,… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“As Henry Moore carved or modelled his sculpture every day, he strove to surpass Donatello 4. and failed, but woke the next morning elated… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop,… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own — George Muller Copy Share Image
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window. — Alan Cox Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
We have a commitment to serve our Lord. We have an assurance that the cause is just and worthy. But, above all, we have… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not rest, believer, until you have full assurance of your interest in Jesus. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
