Argument Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Inspirational Love Poetry
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“If we allow ourselves to be misled by the heresy of paraphrase, we run the risk of doing even more violence to the internal… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Don't get divorced after your first argument! I have a lot of friends that have one fight and that's it, they get divorced. I… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
