Clarity Quote by Helen Bevington Download Open image “poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.” — Helen Bevington ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clarity Intense Poetry Shows
...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But the summits of poetry are mysteries; they are shiftingly veiled, and those who catch the glimpses see different aspects of the transcendental; but… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new — Rory Sutherland Copy Share Image
being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You would cross… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes. — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had. — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Its a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal. — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It comes a moment that someone says something really small, but fits so perfect into your heart that everything start to make sense!! — Laylablack Copy Share Image
Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must become extroverted… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
