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poetry
Chang-Rae Lee I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.
poetry joy three
Umberto Eco For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").
poetry spirit breaths
William Wordsworth poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge
poetry-is abstraction
Wallace Stevens Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
poetry-is
Wallace Stevens All poetry is experimental poetry.
poetry ends lost
W. S. Merwin Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
poetry adjectives
W. H. Auden Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.
poetry vineyards farming
W. H. Auden With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse
adjectives beastly
Roald Dahl Eschew all those beastly adjectives...
adjectives carry joe knew looking man process
Larry Beinfest The adjectives about Joe were consistent. Prepared. Smart. Competitive. Communicative, ... We knew as we went through the process that he was the right man for this job. He had the characteristics we were looking for to carry us through '06 and beyond. We're very happy.
adjectives-and-adverbs fifty cents
Mary Oliver Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.
adjectives oscars used
Mira Sorvino The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.
adjectives verbs through-the-looking-glass
Lewis Carroll They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs...
adjectives built inaccurate nouns pull weak
William White Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjectivehasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tightplace.
adjectives interview joe looking
Larry Beinfest During the interview process, the adjectives about Joe were consistent: prepared, smart, competitive, communicative. All the things we were looking for in a manager.
adjectives certain designed looking news paint people picture repeatedly sort trying
Thomas Sadoski I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way.
adjectives populism populist
Brian Eno Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.