Paul Engle Quotes
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Quotes to Explore
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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I grew up in Jerusalem and went to school here. I studied at the Hebrew University - mostly Islam and Arabic: Arab literature, Arab poetry and culture, because I felt like we are living in this region, in the Middle East, and we are not alone: There are nations here whose culture is Arab.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Most managers are just trying to survive. That's why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies: because they came up with new ideas that no one would allow them to try.
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Making a donation is the ultimate sign of solidarity. Actions speak louder than words.
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The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
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Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.
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I'm not the new Cameron Diaz. I'm not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don't know where these ideas come from. I'd rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I'll happily settle for that.
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table, and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for. But it started around the time of 'Tron,' when I was really excited by the creative process and the prep that went into that. I spoke up often at those writing sessions.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of their programming, but something that actually is integrated into the news.
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Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.
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To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.
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Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.
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Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.
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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
