"Poetry is the art of using language to…" — Laurence Overmire
"Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language,"
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31 Quotes by Laurence Overmire
Laurence Overmire has 31 quotes on this site.
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You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's…
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Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.
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War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than…
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God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.
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There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give…
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History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.
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There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
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Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters.
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I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow,
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Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life.
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There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to…
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Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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