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Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.


Paul Engle

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PAUL ENGLE Poetry is painting with words where you create a masterpiece by spilling your feelings and emotions ...
AVIJEET DAS In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to l...
WALLACE STEVENS In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to l...
WALLACE STEVENS When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct...
SISI MODISE We are made together with flesh and bones, but held together by hope and prayer.
EMILE JOBITY --the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil th...
THOMAS HARDY Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held t...
MARKUS ZUSAK Without common ideas, there is no common action, and without common action men still exist, but a so...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON Godliness with contentment is rare.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of per...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Your lies are like a silent fart. Can't see 'em, but
I can smell 'em.
ERIC JEROME DICKEY Probably, after all we could say that life is like Dexter... a code... and how good can you work wit...
DEYTH BANGER If wishes were held on the skin and swiped by raindrops, then emotions were freeloading off the cell...
AMY GUTH If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar di...
GEORGES BATAILLE Nurtured by negative circumstances, braiding raging tornadoes in her hair, she held her head high, w...
CURTIS TYRONE JONES All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears
ALFRED DOUGLAS 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 Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating commo...
NORMAN O. BROWN Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for...
C.S. LEWIS There was something familiar but strange about her - Snow White with a suntan. Cinderella in biker b...
ALLYSE NEAR Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
ANATOLE BROYARD I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
JAMES A. MICHENER Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.
ALICE WEAVER FLAHERTY Everything has it's own time and place, Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow.
SHELLI THOMPSON Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ...
MARGARET MITCHELL I thought we held it together pretty well. We also showed some character by sticking with it and win...
JACKIE SANCHEZ I don't write poetry with the intention of making someone sad but rather to illustrate my own feelin...
JAMES DYE Wine is sunlight, held together by water!
GALILEO GALILEI Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am a bundle of suppressed instincts held together with spit and coffee.
TERRY PRATCHETT Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he do...
JEANNE MOREAU The journey of life is much about connections! One thing connects with another to bring another thin...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Always judge someone by their heart and emotions, not by the words they say.
NIHAL KIRAN DALWAI 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 All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Sellotape because of all the times Dudley had punc...
J.K. ROWLING Where you are with what you have, what you can do.
DHARM BABU This game is definitely tough. Sometimes emotions get high, and people stop thinking and come with l...
JOE YEVOLI Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
SIMONIDES Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech
SIMONIDES She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser...
J.D. SALINGER Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no...
J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
J.D. SALINGER Amabella intensive corrective serum is an anti-aging and age-defying skin solution with scientifical...
ELTER BUTLER In all warm-blooded creatures, which are the highest evolved and have feelings, passions and emotion...
MAX HEINDEL One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in t...
T.S. ELIOT I think people feel that when they look at the print. The closest thing I can think of is poetry, wh...
HOLLY DOWNING It is an ancient political vehicle, held together by soft soap and hunger and with front-seat driver...
ADLAI STEVENSON 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 We are trying to assist her by removing some excess skin and fat that is hanging over her thighs. I ...
DR. PHILLIPE CAPRARO Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of ...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got a...
LISA KLEYPAS Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.
CONFUCIUS We buy by emotions and justify with reasons.
LORRIN L. LEE Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim...
MARGARET ATWOOD He helped us bring together our ideas. We had 31 members with 31 ideas.
FRED BERG I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Words
CAROLE SEYMOUR-JONES Words are like the delicate stitches in the dress you wear, holding the fabric of the garmet togethe...
LISA MANTCHEV When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you&...
MARILYN HACKER Music is poetry with personality
ROSS LYNCH I was born to make mistakes, not to be perfect.
ROSS LYNCH Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
MAX WILHELM DEHN Strength is not described by muscle or weight, it is described by fear, emotions, wisdom and ability...
JEFFREY LEONARD I hope it gets a little easier. We knew Rim was going to be tough. We thought with the lineup we had...
DAVE STIDHAM The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We crea...
ELIZABETH GILBERT 23. With God, even when nothing is happening...something is happening.
JAMES C. DOBSON I'll miss the old building. But look at it ? it's all torn open. It was just held together with bubb...
HAROLD WILLIAMS As Easter approaches and in the context of the testament of John Paul II, I remind you of his words,...
CARDINAL DZIWISZ And tonight our skin, our bones,
that have survived our fathers,
will meet, delicate in th...
ANNE SEXTON Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers,...
ROLAND BARTHES Communication is not using beautiful and complex words to impress, but its all about expressing our ...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
WHITNEY BALLIETT Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.
ROY H. WILLIAMS The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploit...
LACTANTIUS Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Poetry is the rhythmic creation of beauty in words.
LEAH SLONE If Romeo can do 'Dancing with the Stars,' anything is possible.
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RAND PAUL We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-ric...
RAND PAUL The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to b...
RAND PAUL The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American...
RAND PAUL The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administer...
RAND PAUL If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
RAND PAUL I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism...
RAND PAUL Naples is curiously chaotic and, if I'm honest, a bit dilapidated. It certainly has a 'lived...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-bui...
RON PAUL There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all t...
RON PAUL You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are a...
RON PAUL The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the worl...
RON PAUL Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
RON PAUL All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individ...
RON PAUL When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three cho...
RON PAUL Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
RON PAUL You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
RON PAUL Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we do...
RON PAUL What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a ...
RON PAUL Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up t...
RON PAUL 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
RON PAUL If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not s...
RON PAUL When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
RON PAUL The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our lib...
RON PAUL There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator...
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