Ability Quote by William Matthews Download Open image “The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.” — William Matthews ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ability Argument Inspirational Music Poetry Power of music
“Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
“...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words. — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
“A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books. — William Matthews Copy Share Image
Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud. — William Matthews Copy Share Image
Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's. — William Matthews Copy Share Image
As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will? — William Matthews Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned about it… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
“the importance of ability. The things that make a great job great, I discovered, are rare and valuable. If you want them in your… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability! — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
