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poetry literature logic
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young
poetry poverty instinct
A person born with an instinct for poverty. Elbert Hubbard
poetry religion may
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion. Anna Jameson
poetry doe veils
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. E. B. White
poetry bankers mysterious
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. Allen Tate
poetry pardon burned
For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd. Alexander Pope
poetry together groups
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. Christopher Morley
poetry labels coins
My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. Anne Sexton
poetry century prose
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. David Hare
letters bigs arrested
When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters. Charles Barkley
letters made crooked
Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight. Stephen King
letters answers love-letter
If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back. Ray Bradbury
letters stood-up hanging-around
I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X. Norah Jones
letters feels
More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one. Margaret Atwood
letters action inventing
He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. John McPhee
letters way eras
I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era. Dave McKean
jest dare knows
The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest. Emily Dickinson
jest cynic wit
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. Helen Rowland