"Poetry is life distilled." — Gwendolyn Brooks

More Distilled Quotes

This quote is filed under Distilled Quotes, one of 73 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. — Raymond Chandler
• A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people.… — Zora Neale Hurston
• The internal processes of muscle growth are seriously complicated, people devote their lives to it, but the external processes that… — Unknown Author
• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.… — Ovid
• But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the… — James K. Baxter
• My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as… — John Cheever
• Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat,… — Virginia Woolf
• Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.
• Hurray, Hallelujah, and Happy Prostate! Finally, someone has taken the years and done the work, so the rest of us… — Dirk Benedict
• A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. — Edward Albee
• If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness,… — Roland Merullo
• One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into… — Unknown Author

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