Actresses Quote by Masiela Lusha

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

— David Biespiel

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may…

— Jay Asher

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

— Diane Wakoski

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

— Sylvia Plath

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a…

— Anonymous

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

— Francine Prose

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting

— Edmund Burke

The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques…

— Simin Behbahani

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

— Anatole Broyard