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«Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.»
Author: Henry Beston
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
banishment, mood, poetic, put away, reverence, vanishes, vulgar
«Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.»
Author: Joseph Cornell
| Keywords:
boxes, metamorphoses, pastime, poetic, settings, theaters, wherein
«It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns»
Author: Molly O'Neill
| About:
Drinking
| Keywords:
bender, benders, bottle, breakfast table, chill, drain, his uncle, Morning after, notorious, poetic, reminded, returns, sit down, stout, The Morning After, The Notorious, uncle, uncles
«Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.»
«Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Love,
Metaphor
| Keywords:
enters, poetic
«I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
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consumed, continuing, displays, generate, poetic, readings, text
«LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox:I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire. That stupid shepherd lolling on his crook With deaf attention scarcely deigns to look. I bide my time, and it shall come at length, When, with a Titan's energy and strength, I'll grab a fistful of the strings, and O, The word shall suffer when I let them go! --Farquharson Harris»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bide, biding, deign, deigns, denote, denotes, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, faculty, fiery, figurative, fistful, grab, Harris, instrument of torture, lyre, Parnassus, poetic, strings, Titan, wheeler, wire
«Poetic fire sank low in me When it was God I sought to see, But up it flamed, up to the sky, When it was Evil I had to fly»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
flamed, poetic, sank, To Fly
«I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
attracted, at length, cherished, poetic, predecessor
«There is a pleasure in poetic painsWhich only poets know.»
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