Quotes About Poetic Imagery

#1. Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.

Bill Bryson

#2. And after that, I watched our house collapse in on itself and I spent some time lying in the rubble. Then I vanished completely. I wasn't here at all. Then you phoned.

Ali Smith

#3. Kept dreaming of this spot she had on her neck, this tiny country. I wanted to visit, to paint a picture of what I found there, a wall with a road map of her skin.

Cath Crowley

#4. The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.

Al-Waleed Bin Talal

#5. Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

Marty Feldman

#6. I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

Anais Nin

#7. As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.

Ann Zwinger

#8. Watch, how the sun
slowly rises
from behind my ear

new lines, new countries
spring up in my palms

my rough hair
become swaying silk

and all the leaves
in my body
become lusher than fruits.

Sanober Khan

#9. The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.

C.S. Forester

#10. Desperately knocking against the blind little world, i loosened one of its planks, opening a window to a new, wider world. There, spread out, was a profusion of geography, of atmosphere, of full empty air.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#11. From time to time, from the endless flow of our mental imagery, there emerges unexpectedly something that, vague though it may be, seems to carry the promise of a form, a meaning, and, more important, an irresistible poetic charge.

Leo Lionni

#12. I'm the designated sane person.

Bonnie Rice

#13. The definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation

John Green

#14. Only this time, now that she knew what it felt like to kiss him, she didn't want to slap that look off his face, she wanted to kiss it off.

Mairead Falcon

#15. But the future lay open, a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities with a small quick heartbeat, delicate and impatient

Jonathan Safran Foer

#16. We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.

Roger Williams

#17. Faces pressed against the pane, full of little, content with sawdust tears.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#18. I really wanted something, giving myself permission to screw up wasn't an option

Tara Kelly

#19. I hate that crossing paths with someone from my past can throw me back to the darkness and sadness that may always be a part of me.

Jessica Sorensen

#20. I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch.

George Carlin

#21. I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.

Jeff Tweedy

#22. I don't make love . . I fuck . . hard

E.L. James

#23. I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

Rachel Kushner

#24. If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.

Austin O'Malley

#25. The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

Garry Kasparov