Cliche Quote by Gerald Brenan Download Open image “The cliche is dead poetry.” — Gerald Brenan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cliche Poetry
The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
“The idea that literary theorists killed poetry dead because with their shrivelled hearts and swollen brains they are incapable of spotting a metaphor, let… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.” — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks! — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
“As an opener, I'd like to state that elves are certainly NOT cliché. It doesn't matter if they all have pointy ears, or they… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from. — David Twohy Copy Share Image
Audiences are hungry for something different. With binge-watching, they're hungry for interesting content they haven't seen before, and they want to be entertained. A… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis,… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that… — Markus Wolf Copy Share Image
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
