Affair Quote by Philip Larkin

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and…

— Philip Larkin

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of…

— Philip Larkin

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short,…

— Philip Larkin

I think the occupation of my poetry is akin to this desire to be many things at once - things that sometimes conflict. Regarding…

— Dawn Lundy Martin

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

— Ai Weiwei

I've always got a book in my hands, a novel in my hands. The more I get into film, the more paranoid I get…

— Irvine Welsh

“This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things that can…

— Anne Lamott

“Time, seeing all things, has found You out as you did not foresee.”

— Sophocles

How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that…

— Norton Juster

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

— Robert Greene

Frank Lampard has a vision for seeing things.

— Jamie Redknapp

“You don't know what it's been like all these years, seeing things that are invisible to everybody else. I knew I wasn't crazy, I…

— C.A. Gray