Counterfeit Quote by John Donne Download Open image “Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were” — John Donne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Counterfeit Creation Creativity Poetry Poetry is
Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it… — Sybil Marshall Copy Share Image
I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it. — Louise Closser Hale Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life. — John Donne Copy Share Image
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but… — John Donne Copy Share Image
We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Various content To your eyes, ears, and tongue, and every part. If then your body go, what need you a heart? — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ; That I may rise,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity. — John Donne Copy Share Image
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull… — John Donne Copy Share Image
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and… — John Donne Copy Share Image
All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“If you think you are better than Stork, then by all means, get hold of me.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint: Things least to be believed are most preferred. All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,… — John Clare Copy Share Image
What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do… — Moliere Copy Share Image
The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
