Honore de Balzac Quotes
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.Honore de Balzac
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
Adam Grant -
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
Fannie Flagg -
Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
Ian Hacking -
The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
Victor Garber -
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame de Stael -
All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
S. E. Hinton -
I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
Ada Lovelace -
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
Vera Farmiga -
I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
Adam Driver -
I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.
Rachel Cusk -
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
T. S. Eliot -
The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.
Eduard Hanslick -
One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.
Madi Diaz
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the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
William James -
The events in America now have the quality of things you would find out about long after the fact, and think: if only we had known. Well, we do know now. But what are we doing? Maybe a poet like Lowell brought America a little nearer to its boiling point.
Dan Chiasson -
The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
William Butler Yeats -
Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine.
Hassan Nasrallah -
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.
Honore de Balzac