Poetry Quote by James Branch Cabell Download Open image “Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.” — James Branch Cabell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Rebellion Revolution
“Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is. (1879-1958)” — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison … Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it.… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you…a subtle and immortal spirit.” — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
People never want to be told anything they do not believe already. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer . Thus… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image