Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.
Matthew Arnold
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enthusiasm of genius. ISAAC D'ISRAELI American "energy." . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed ... SUSAN SONTAG Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or p... RALPH WALDO EMERSON The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. FRANCIS BACON Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or ph... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is ... WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its
proverbs. UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR [Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake. LORD BYRON A fish is a genius in water, an eagle is a genius in air, a fox is a genius on land, and a sage is a... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, the... EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, the... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON When you are touched by poetry, it creates a positive energy in you. I truly believe that energy is ... ALICIA GHIRAGOSSIAN There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that'... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ... BILLY WILDER An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ... BILLY WILDER Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or... RALPH WALDO EMERSON I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative ... RAFAEL MONEO I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence --this may look like affectation but it ... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Seeing, touching is believing! THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL SEO is DEAD in the eyes of the people who know LESS about it. J. ORACOY I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what... BRANDON SANDERSON Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge WILLIAM WORDSWORTH It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it ... THOMAS MOORE If you are having an affair, it could save your relationship. If you are not having an affair, and y... CHLOE THURLOW Life without dreams is an absolute vanity affair. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't... JAMES FENTON Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. . . I believe the greate... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest c... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT This is not Watergate; it is an extra-marital affair, JOHN CONYERS To have self control in an out of control world is genius. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning... ABHIJIT NASKAR We believe that atomic energy is a blessing given by God, ... It's an opportunity. It is a clean ene... MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. P... KAMAND KOJOURI Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a re... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a ... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Poetry is an act of love. DEBASISH MRIDHA Faith may not be an instant affair,for it also requires patience to germinate. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet. "You're lik... BRANDON SANDERSON Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust ... GERMANY KENT I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him up... JOHN F. KENNEDY A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impres... FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair.... SCOTT DIKKERS There is an imbalance in terms of the demand and supply of energy which continues to be satisfied, o... BRIAN BETHUNE Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do. BRADLEY WHITFORD Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. AJAY NAIDU She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I'm convinced the question of development is mainly an issue of governance and leadership. AUGUSTIN MATATA PONYO To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps... SAMUEL BUTLER Oh phosphorescence. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that l... WILLIAM LUCE Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is... ADRIAN MITCHELL ...bunches of flowers and kisses, their bodies locked together by a stopwatch." Descripti... SUSAN RICHARDS SHREVE Love is energy of life. ROBERT BROWNING …because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothi... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Poetry contains few words but tells much. Its beauty is that by being condensed it is rich in meanin... SALIL JHA The talk of an increase is mainly to give comfort to the market. It is refining capacity we have to ... EDMUND DAUKORU Love is the poetry of the senses. HONORE DE BALZAC Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. CHRISTOPHER QUILL Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck CHRISTOPHER QUILL Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. W. WINWOOD READE The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally... MATTHEW PEARL The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. K'NAAN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop... MILTON GLASER Country music is the poetry of the American spirit. STEVE MARABOLI Poetry is an act of love. Without love life is impossible. Without poetry love has no ex... DEBASISH MRIDHA Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essential... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES An entrepreneur is a kind of genius who is born, not made. ANN WINBLAD I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is p... KANDYSE MCCLURE Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion. JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Wonderful Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees an affair, He only says to it... QURAN Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right. PAM GEMS American energy is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chro... SUSAN SONTAG Earnestness is good and impressive: genius is gifted and great. Thought kindles and inspires, but it... E. M. BOUNDS Being a dedicated writer and poet takes time, commitment and energy. You don't have time to drink or... LAUREN MANOJLOVICH No great genius is without an admixture of madness. ARISTOTLE Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the rout... JOHN PHILIP SOUSA Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius. AMIT KALANTRI Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius. ISAAC D'ISRAELI Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius. ISAAC DISRAELI Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the be... JAMES D. WATSON Don’t talk to me about Valentine’s Day. At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass! JOAN RIVERS It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by c... VIRGINIA WOOLF By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face... DAVID WHYTE That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means.... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. LEONARD COHEN Did you have an extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky? PAULA JONES Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. 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Yet let me say that she was fair;
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More grateful ... MATTHEW ARNOLD I met a preacher there I knew, and said,
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Brave... MATTHEW ARNOLD Ah, love, let us be true
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Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.
... MATTHEW ARNOLD Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still,
Out-top... MATTHEW ARNOLD Hark! ah, the nightingale--
The tawny-throated!
Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst!
... MATTHEW ARNOLD On Sundays, at the matin-chime,
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... MATTHEW ARNOLD Six years--six little years--six drops of time. MATTHEW ARNOLD They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
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troublesome. MATTHEW ARNOLD With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden an... MATTHEW ARNOLD What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls
a butterfly. MATTHEW ARNOLD Her cabin'd ample spirit,
It fluttered and fail'd for breath;
Tonight it doth inherit
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the world." MATTHEW ARNOLD Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called th... MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is
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My humble tomb explore!
It bears: "Eternity, be thou
... MATTHEW ARNOLD Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. MATTHEW ARNOLD Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us lik... MATTHEW ARNOLD Like driftwood spares which meet and pass
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