Hunches Quote by John Ashbery Download Open image “Poetry is mostly hunches.” — John Ashbery ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hunches Poetry Poetry is
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. — Horace Copy Share Image
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Yes, they are alive and can have those colors, But I, in my soul, am alive too. I feel I must sing and dance,… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
How many people came and stayed a certain time, Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you Like light behind windblown fog… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Some certified nut Will try to tell you it's poetry, (It's extraordinary, it makes a great deal of sense) But watch out or he'll… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account,… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.... — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“The genius of Cornell is that he sees and enables us to see with the eyes of childhood, before our vision got clouded by… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“The Unknown Travelers Lugged to the gray arbor, I have climbed this snow-stone on my face, My stick, but what, snapped the avalanche The… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group:… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Listen to your hunches, pay attention to your intuition, do not dismiss your random thoughts, inspirations or ideas.... They could be giving you the… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
These changes-the more rapid pulse, the deeper breathing, the increase of sugar in the blood, the secretion from the adrenal glands-were very diverse and… — Walter Bradford Cannon Copy Share Image
There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing as exciting… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just as muddled… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they… — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
