At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
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Related The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records ever... MILAN KUNDERA Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when... MILAN KUNDERA Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken... ROBERT GRAVES Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken... ROBERT GRAVES All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, poli... WALLACE STEVENS At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of p... HAROLD BLOOM If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature. PHYLLIS BATELLE It would look like an area hit by nuclear explosion. AMR ELNASHAI Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. MARGARET MITCHELL I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN Back in the 70s it was plutonium from a Canadian reactor that India used in its first nuclear explos... MATT MCCLURE All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down fo... EDITH SITWELL The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. JOSEPH BRODSKY As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women i... EAVAN BOLAND When athletes write poetry, it shows students (athletes) aren't all just macho - they can have a poe... LAUREN MANOJLOVICH don’t say you’se ole. You’se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo’ ole ... ZORA NEALE HURSTON It's poetic almost. He starts of the year with that, and this game he starts it off by banking in a ... BOBBY FRASOR A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. LUIS BARRAGAN Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, bec... TAYLOR WILSON Water flows because it's willing. MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead. JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it. JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm. JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic. SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing. MARGARET MITCHELL But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. MICHAEL SHERMER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The Apollo 13 accident was caused by an explosion involving liquid oxygen, which is needed along wit... EVGENY SHAFIROVICH Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ... MARGARET MITCHELL Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. THOMAS CARLYLE Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic
genius. THOMAS CARLYLE Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. THOMAS CARLYLE You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. The freedom of poetic license. CICERO The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there... CAITLIN DOUGHTY When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to w... AZAR NAFISI My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall gr... DAVID BOHM Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the ex... EDWARD GREY It was poetic and playable, literate, RICHARD GERE Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing... JACQUES DERRIDA I like to not have to be 'on' for anybody. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE The Legend of Zorro, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis, Louis, Louis...Stil whining, Louis! Are you quite finished? I've had to listen to that for ce... INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will ... INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Having her take that last shot was really almost poetic. I just wish she would have hit it. SUE SEMRAU Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are sha... W. H. AUDEN Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''s... W. H. AUDEN Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... MARGARET MITCHELL Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic subs... SAM KEAN Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? AZAR NAFISI This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music:... SUSANNA KAYSEN If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar di... GEORGES BATAILLE Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word. CRAIG GROESCHEL Visual preoccupation with the outward creates a shallow and fickle focus on the 'beauty of form', wh... DAVID L. HATTON that rare phenomenon of an artist's personality becoming wholly merged with a poetic figure and of a... LOTTE LEHMANN They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite... MARGARET MITCHELL Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a h... MARGARET MITCHELL Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t... EMILY GIFFIN O full and splendid Moon, whom I Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky So many a midnig... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. DAVID HASSELHOFF She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I made the four minutes of the prelude entirely with the sound of hand-tools. At one point it sounds... JOHN ADAMS They best can judge a poet's worth,
Who oft themselves have known
The pangs of a poetic birth
... WILLIAM COWPER I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of be... SALVATORE QUASIMODO When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As... PHILIP EMEAGWALI Back in the Seventies, we had a romantic, poetic vision of the future, like it was in the movie '... JEAN-MICHEL JARRE The image of the "presence," whatever it was, waiting there for him to go--this image had not yet be... HENRY JAMES Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean pe... JAMES FENTON In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism bec... ROMAN JAKOBSON Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, p... ARTHUR ERICKSON How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL
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