Poetics Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Download Open image ““Flashlight beams danced crazily”” — Kurt Vonnegut ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetics Trauma War
“Every so often, a lightning flash would reveal us to each other, and the expression on his face - so rapt, so helpless, so… — April Lindner Copy Share Image
“The surface of the shoes seemed to pulse with hundreds of reflections and refractions. In the firelight, it was like looking at boiling corpuscles… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“At night, when no one's there, the dancers and the musicians on the walls come to life and there's a glamorous ball. Sometimes their… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“I kept wanting to sit and rest, to curl up in a ball and think of nothing else. No, no, no. The light. I… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“I long for our light. Just as our hearts can break to learn how to beat, change ushers in the dances we need. Everything… — Ulonda Faye Copy Share Image
“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.” — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
“The novel has accompanied man uninterruptedly and faithfully since the beginning of the Modern Era. It was then that the "passion to know," which… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I make work that is many things at once: poems that are prose, that are pictures, that are poem and picture. Actions that are… — Jen Besemer Copy Share Image
“To Wallace Stevens' post-Nietzschean formula 'God and the imagination are one,' these women poets would add a crucial third element: God and the imagination… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
“The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
“Midway between the too soiled ground and the too-sublime vaults, at the level of the air, entering the skin of the role, poetry plays… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“And the beautiful lady, still with her beautiful wasp’s waist, the very beautiful lady whose charms buzz around our childish dreams, will not turn… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“The genuine artist, Harris is saying, finds reality in a point of identity between subject and object, a point at which the created world… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“at man’s height the mouth utters its cries, tosses forth its oracles, gives vent to its puns. To allow words to come to life,… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte. (More recent poets put a lot of water in the ink.) -- Goethe: Aus Makariens Archiv.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
