Becoming Quote by Julian Jaynes

“So long as discontent and unrest make themselves but dumbly felt within a limited social class, the powers of reaction may often succeed in…

— Emma Goldman

Her hair gives dawn it's fire, her eyes give dusk her soul" He knew how to use his voice to melt a girl's heart,…

— Elizabeth Chandler

I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences:…

— Jan Theuninck

I think that if poetry is not a personal act, it's a pamphlet.

— Maria Teresa Horta

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

— Mark Strand

In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment - not just in poetry - into the personal.…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is not about personal pain or tragedy. It should resonate the society's grief.

— Gulzar

In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

— Mason Cooley

Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.

— Gershon Legman

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

— Georges Braque

With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and…

— Janine Antoni

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

— Dana Carvey