It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.
George Eliot
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It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot.
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GEORGE ELIOT My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
JOYCE CAROL OATES The fatal problem with poetry: poems.
BEN LERNER Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in...
WALLACE STEVENS This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music:...
SUSANNA KAYSEN I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is o...
HOWARD NEMEROV It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
VOLTAIRE I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occa...
HOWARD JACOBSON Painting is poetry in pictures as music is poetry in notes.
LEAH DANCEL Music is poetry with personality
ROSS LYNCH Music is poetry in motion.
P.M. TERRELL Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmospher...
JAMES MARTINEAU Gary had many plans for the future both with his teaching, especially with his music. It seems very ...
MARK LARSON Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their po...
WILLIAM BLAKE The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too ...
EZRA POUND I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought...
BRUCE COCKBURN It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.
OSCAR WILDE Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
JOSHUA LOGAN It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
OSCAR WILDE It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal
OSCAR WILDE A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
W. H. AUDEN If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, ...
A. R. AMMONS It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL Eliot and I aren't saying innocent or guilty.
BARRY TATELMAN The person who says it can’t be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.
SHANNON L. ALDER There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It...
YANNI Jeremy...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I do not know of anything in modern poetry as violently hostile to contemporary life as was the poet...
DENNIS GABOR George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's te...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high,...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with ot...
A. S. BYATT Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
DAVID LEE ROTH Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Country music is the poetry of the American spirit.
STEVE MARABOLI Eliot has never shied away from an opportunity to take on his opponents. We have requests from news ...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.
SOURCE UNKNOWN You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.
There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax ...
DOROTHY PARKER Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
BETTE MIDLER Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or p...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn...
BRUCE COCKBURN Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it g...
EZRA POUND [P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bibl...
BART D. EHRMAN Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
DENNIS GABOR If music and sweet poetry agree.
RICHARD BARNFIELD The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolifi...
JOHN UPDIKE Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you --like music to the musician or Marxism t...
SOURCE UNKNOWN I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it'...
JAMILA WOODS Difficult music is just a huge challenge. I've always been interested in music that didn't have pop ...
JOSH BLAIR I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO A word or music that flows from the soul magically touches the heart of one and all.
ANUJ SOMANY Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.
KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and p...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind ...
EARL SWEATSHIRT I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always h...
AARON CARTER Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...
SAMUEL BUTLER Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is...
SAMUEL BUTLER It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is fatal to forget the past.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
MARK KNOPFLER Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
WALTER MOSLEY Music , literature with poetry makes a perfect paradise.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation
and specificity.
WALTER MOSLEY Poetry should be for the people. It always has been, ... Ted writes poetry for the people.
DAVE EVANS To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex ...
TOBIAS HILL When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us alw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my fav...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually...
MARGUERITE YOUNG Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."
Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison....
KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so natur...
YELAWOLF There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquen...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.
SHAH ASAD RIZVI Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything els...
SAMUEL BUTLER I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN It is fatal to forget the heavenly Father.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Often it is fatal to live too long.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of...
C. K. WILLIAMS You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places wh...
JOY HARJO It really just confirmed that, as she always said - 'poetry is my first love'.
PAMELA GORDON Poetry contains few words but tells much. Its beauty is that by being condensed it is rich in meanin...
SALIL JHA Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: G...
DOLLY PARTON I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different ...
BABYFACE Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
VOLTAIRE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE always underestimate George Bush, and they are still doing it.
WHIT AYRES It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.
ARTHUR BREMER It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing.
ERIC WEINER The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light...
ABERJHANI It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER For me, poetry is always a search for order.
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GEORGE ELIOT There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere...
GEORGE ELIOT He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
GEORGE ELIOT A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoug...
GEORGE ELIOT Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity
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