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

• 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

• I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Masters
  • Orchestration
  • Ravel

• As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

  

  Carole Keeton
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Grandma

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

  

  William Everson
  • Attributes
  • Sanctity
  • Orchestration