Benedetto Croce Quotes
Poetry is produced not by the mere caprice of pleasure, but by natural necessity. It is the primary activity of the human mind.
Benedetto Croce
Quotes to Explore
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.
Nathan Fillion
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Lao Tzu
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
Wadah Khanfar
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-music's powerIs little felt in sunlit hour;But hear its voice when hopes depart,Like swallows, flying from the heartOn which the summer's late declineHas set a sadness and a sign;. . . . . .How deeply will the spirit feelThe lute, the song's sweet-voiced appeal;And how the heart drink in their sighsAs echoes they from Paradise.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Men wanna be alone, but we don't wanna be by ourselves.
Patrice O'Neal
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
Natasha Trethewey
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You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.
Theodore Roethke
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I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in a resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break.
Daphne Gottlieb
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The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.
Oskar Kokoschka
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Poetry is produced not by the mere caprice of pleasure, but by natural necessity. It is the primary activity of the human mind.
Benedetto Croce
