Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.Edgar Allan Poe
Quotes to Explore
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
Adam Grant -
Home is the nicest word there is.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
Naftali Bennett -
More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
Ian Wace -
The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
Carl Jung -
My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.
Mandy Patinkin
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Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
Ford Frick -
'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
Kate Atkinson -
I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
Mackenzie Foy -
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings -
I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
Oriana Fallaci -
Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.
Rabih Alameddine -
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
Mark Twain -
I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: 'strength.'
Lorde -
The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.
Chris Martin Coldplay -
Never try to help God fulfill His word.
Oswald Chambers -
I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.
Alicia Keys
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What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?
Dante Alighieri -
Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
Studs Terkel -
Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.
Thomas Carlyle -
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.
Edgar Allan Poe