Commonplace Quote by Kenneth Rexroth

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

— Victor Hugo

“Cannot it actually be that in a wildly literal sense, unacceptable to one's reason, he meant disappearing in his art, dissolving in his verse,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words

— Max Lucado

“History, lie of our lives, mire of our loins. Our sins, our souls. Hiss-tih-ree: the tip of the pen taking a trip of three…

— Brian Celio

Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the…

— Ambrose Bierce

“for God's sake, let's be done with the hypocrisy of claiming "I am a biblical literalist" when everyone is a selective literalist, especially those…

— Walter Wink

“All theology is a doomed but necessary attempt to express the inexpressible. God is the elusive mystery we try to capture and convey in…

— Richard Holloway

“Nothing is impossible to gods and authors.”

— Will Durant

“... a boar is a very special kind of animal whose bristling is a thing unto itself, and his nape, like a snake's neck,…

— Guy Davenport

“It's God that's worrying me. That's the only thing that's worrying me. What if He doesn't exist? What if Rakitin's right -that it's an…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The reality is that Bible translation is not an easy task.”

— Ron Rhodes

The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a…

— Elihu Palmer