Farce Quote by Jean Anouilh Download Open image “Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.” — Jean Anouilh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Farce Importance Inspiration Poetry
Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it-- — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you feel deeply.. — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from… — Anonymous Copy Share
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has… — Mark Colvin Copy Share Image
One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is;… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that the Iraqis are not telling us anything we don't already know or can't prove. This is what makes this whole… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization. — Charles E. McKenzie Copy Share Image
The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a… — Meles Zenawi Copy Share Image
