Quote by Frank Kermode Download Open image ““the buoyancy of chiliasts”” — Frank Kermode ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Chili is one of those marvelous-simple, elemental, all-important, and fundamental concepts that has been elaborated out of all recognition: rather like justice, or objective… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“Your mother’s chili was onions, hamburger, tomato soup, kidney beans, no chili powder, no peppers. Mexican flags flew at half staff every time she… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“the water of the lagoon was warm as blood, salt as tears, and astonishingly clear” — Gillian Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“It's as if I'm afloat in a sea of change. Each piece of wreckage to which I cling has limited buoyancy and soon sinks,… — Ken Davis Copy Share Image
“A second wave collapsed over my feet, lipped with white froth, and the chill gripped my ankles with a mortal ache.” — sylvia plath Copy Share Image
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The sea pokes the horizon like the tongue of a parched man, blue corroded by salt.” — Megan Stack Copy Share Image
“Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.” — André Gide Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I love most about the ocean? The way the water’s all connected. The bits and pieces have different names, but… — Beatriz Williams Copy Share Image
“The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and Eliot and… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“It is already the fashion to diminish Eliot by calling him derivative, the mouthpiece of Pound, and so forth; and yet if one wanted… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“I suppose it would be better if one were aggressive, contentious and so on. But there's rarely any occasion to be savage.” — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“When tragedy established itself in England it did so in terms of plots and spectacle that had much more to do with medieval apocalypse… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“The novel, then, provides a reduction of the world different from that of the treatise. It has to lie. Words, thoughts, patterns of word… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“The books which seal off the long perspectives, which sever us from our losses, which represent the world of potency as a world of… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“The discords of our experience--delight in change, fear of change; the death of the individual and the survival of the species, the pains and… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“It might be useful here to say a word about Beckett, as a link between the two stages, and as illustrating the shift towards… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“The great majority of interpretations of Apocalypse assume that the End is pretty near. Consequently the historical allegory is always having to be revised;… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“You sometimes hear people say, with a certain pride in their clerical resistance to the myth, that the nineteenth century really ended not in… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“Having compared the novel-reader with an infant and a primitive, one can go further and call him a psychopath; and this I shall shortly… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
