Conspiring Quote by Lawrence Durrell Download Open image “Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.” — Lawrence Durrell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conspiring Men Poet Poetry
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action. Destruction awaits… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they — John Keats Copy Share Image
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“ Q: As a poet what distinguishes you, do you think, from an ordinary man? A: Only the use of the medium of poetry… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is. (1879-1958)” — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Suddenly at the end of the great couloir my vision is sharpened by a pale disjunctive shudder as a bar of buttercup-yellow thickening gradually… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“He felt that his mind had become a battle-ground for the forces of good and evil and that his task was to strain every… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time -… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“God did not create us, nor did He wish us to be created. We are the work of a lesser deity, a demiurge, who… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
God picks you up. You don't pick yourself up. You're the one who knocked you down or even if somebody else knocked you down,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Listening to learn isn't about giving advice--at least not until asked--but about trying to understand exactly what someone means,how it is that someone looks… — Elizabeth Debold Copy Share Image
What worn-out shticks are blinding you to the blessings that life is conspiring to give you? — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
The Nick Boles text is kiboshed [Mike] Gove's chances. It undermined people's confidence in him. It made it look as if he's been conspiring… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused. — Justin Miller Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government... — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
There's a new and virulent cultural virus ripping through the world. . . . The symptoms of those infected include attacks of optimism, strong… — Jules Marshall Copy Share Image
I once found myself conspiring with a British Cabinet Minister as to how we might persuade Her Majesty's Treasury to cough up more money… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Life is conspiring in your favor. It may not always look that way, but it is, I assure you. Everything that is happening, is… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“I take the tiniest of steps back and reach out to place my hand in his. When I do, it’s exactly as I thought… — J.B. McGee Copy Share Image
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