Caesura Quotes

#1. I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

Jonathan Coe

#2. If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

Jurgen Habermas

#3. And when he saw the kid standing there looking looking down at him he held out to him his bloodied hands as if in accusation and then clapped them to his ears and cried out what it seemed he himself would not hear, a howl of such outrage as to stitch a caesura in the pulsebeat of the world.

Cormac McCarthy

#4. There are codes so subtle that they change their whole meaning in half a line, or in a syllable, or in a pause, a caesura.

Hilary Mantel

#5. There's a thing in poetry called the caesura a pause between words, a silence. I thought: that's what real friendship is, too. Someone you can be quiet with. Someone who understands your mistakes and forgives you.

Margo Rabb

#6. Every man has two lives: The first one is the one we are living now and the second one is our memories! Memories are our invisible lives. But you must know that it is your first life that creates your second life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

Horace

#8. Jesus is the center point where God's claim and human response correlate.

Michael Frost

#9. Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

Nathan Rosenberg

#10. In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That ... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'

Malcolm X