William Everson Quotes

Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

William Everson

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• A group of psychologists say they have discovered twenty-three different body language indicators that show whether or not a person is lying. If you would like to see all twenty-three at the same time, they recommend taking a guided tour of the White House.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Different
  • House

• And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

  

  Plato
  • War
  • Service
  • Rewards

• Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

  

  Plato
  • Health
  • Habit
  • Virtue

• Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Laughter
  • Suffers

• When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Action
  • inspirational
  • Traitor

• My pen moves along the pagelike the snout of a strange animalshaped like a human armand dressed in the sleeve of a loose green sweater.

  

  William Collins
  • Human
  • Green
  • Moves

• People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything...

  

  Andrew Lakey
  • Want
  • Find
  • Meaning

• It takes a great client to create great architecture.

  

  Curtis W. Fentress
  • Great
  • Architecture
  • Create

• It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people are carrying around is random. This means there are different bits and pieces in different populations, but it doesn't seem to amount to much that's significant.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Significant
  • Populations
  • Native American

• Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.

  

  William Feather
  • Individual
  • Fine
  • Enthusiasm

• There are many names to Allah plus one you don't know. And each name is an attribute that flexes his characteristics: the Benevolent, the Merciful, the All-Knower... And to me, my names be flexin' personalities of myself: Prince Rakeem, Bobby Digital, Bobby Steels, the RZA, the Rzarector... These are personalities of myself.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Personality
  • Digital
  • Characteristics

• War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.

  

  Eric L. Haney
  • Men
  • War
  • Brave

• Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

  

  William Everson
  • Attributes
  • Sanctity
  • Orchestration