Antipoetic Quotes

#1. [Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job ... into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.

Milan Kundera

#2. The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us; it is within: the clay from where the tree of the body grows.

John O'Donohue

#3. The perfect world for me is to find some sort of inner peace. I believe that a man that walks with God can walk anywhere.

Immortal Technique

#4. It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

Dashiell Hammett

#5. Nothing keeps. There is one law in the universe: NOW.

Alfred Sutro

#6. I was a screen
I was their protector. The more I saw, the less they would.

Henry James

#7. What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

Frank Herbert

#8. I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

Marguerite Young

#9. You never heard me tell you that I want everything, not just the perfect pieces, not just the sparkling, charming snapshots of you. You never let me tell you that I want every piece of you, even the broken ones, even the dark places where scary things hide.

Amy Reed

#10. When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.

Rachael Harris

#11. It is better to burn than to disappear.

Albert Camus