Clouds Quote by Peter Straub Download Open image “Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?” — Peter Straub ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clouds Defeat Dream Dreams Failure Poetry
No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Clouds and buttercups exist in poetry, but they are there only because storms and flowers populate the world too.” — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re not here—… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked /… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement.… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something deep within… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“I know this doesn't make sense, but if we ever did this before, exactly this, with you sitting over there and me here, in… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you… — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
No matter how strong the storm, how hard the rain and how vicious the wind there is always a gap in the clouds for… — Ben Greenhalgh Copy Share Image
The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day. — William Falconer Copy Share Image
Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Max—you have a bigger mission than finding the flock's parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held my wings… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my fights be wild, To… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
