Land Quote by Washington Irving Download Open image “Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.” — Washington Irving ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Land Poetry
Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven… — Iain Crichton Smith Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the… — Damon Galgut Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
Whenever I was flying commercial, I would land in Chicago, and they would announce, 'Get your passports out.' It happened so often, I would… — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry 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
Even though we must walk in the land of fear, there is no need to fear. The power of His resurrection comes before the… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land. — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image