Amir Taheri Quotes

Poetry interprets the chaos of human life and tries to bestow meaning on it. Without imagination there could be no poetry; and imagination chained by ideology produces only propaganda.

Amir Taheri

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• Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Mean
  • Fighting
  • Meaning

• Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Up
  • Poetry
  • Rain

• There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • God
  • Chaos

• I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Poetry
  • Beauty
  • Themes

• Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Passion
  • Memories
  • Chaos

• If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Poetry
  • Hunting
  • Desperate

• My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Down

• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Done
  • Art
  • Help

• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • God
  • Chaos

• I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Beautiful
  • Poetry
  • Enjoy

• America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.

  

  Sam Kean
  • World
  • War
  • America

• I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Time
  • American
  • Meaning

• None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Pain
  • Poetry
  • Tragedy

• Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby - and anyone who's a mother knows it's very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Mother
  • Worry
  • Baby

• I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Roots

• No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job....Poetry..remains one person talking to another....no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Job
  • Free

• The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks from Stalin to Mr. Bean, creating chaos out of order, rather than order out of chaos.

  

  Vince Cable
  • House
  • Past
  • Chaos

• The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Best

• The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Instrument
  • Comfort Zone
  • Improvisation

• The separate atoms of a molecule are not connected all with all, or all with one, but, on the contrary, each one is connected only with one or with a few neighbouring atoms, just as in a chain link is connected with link.

  

  August Kekule
  • Connected
  • Atom
  • Molecule

• I grew up listening to everybody.

  

  Lil Baby
  • Listening
  • Everybody
  • Grew

• Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Silly

• Poetry interprets the chaos of human life and tries to bestow meaning on it. Without imagination there could be no poetry; and imagination chained by ideology produces only propaganda.

  

  Amir Taheri
  • Poetry
  • Chaos
  • Meaning