Quotes About Metaphysical Poetry

#1. I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

T. S. Eliot

#2. The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Marcus Aurelius

#3. He had tried to shed his pain, to rise from the ashes like a drab phoenix with no hope except the cold peace of indifference. Now that events forced him to open himself to the world again, he was swamped by emotion as a novice surfer was overwhelmed by each cresting wave.

Dean Koontz

#4. Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated?

Saint Augustine

#5. Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

John Dryden

#6. Great lovers have made great sacrifices.

Louis Auchincloss

#7. I haven't changed a bit. I go out with my mates, but I probably have to watch what I do a little more.

Travis Fimmel

#8. Kiss her again in the name of science.

Eve Langlais

#9. Oracle of Delphi:
In my deep mystery I breathe
your fragrance swirling in
your odourless soul
I return your mystery
revealing your destiny deep in
the seed of your God Self

Ramon Ravenswood

#10. And then she kissed him," he murmurs, "and all manner of thought left his head. It was a kiss he had dreamed about, but it was a thousand times better than his dreams. And he was ruined in all the best ways ... and he'd never be the same again.

Beth Michele

#11. I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines.

Eva Herzigova

#12. What is Imagination but mental mischief of a kind, and why can't the youngster protectively occupy himself with invention of that sort before maturity works him over?

Ivan Doig

#13. In the theatre, as anyone knows who's even done amateur theatre all their lives, you immediately find a family there. Because you're under stress, you're trying to create something, you're putting on a show, you find brothers and sisters right away.

Saul Rubinek

#14. Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.

Shaquille O'Neal

#15. By letting go we become free to accept what is new.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Yes, the wind came up
" Mrs. Sharpe began. She paused.
"And changed us all," Petra said softly.

Blue Balliett