(33 quotes found)
“I feel no love, but incredible pain. Filled with rage; it is enough to make anyone go insane.”
Enrique Vega
“Once an editor chased after me, red lights, siren, trying to write me a ticket because I made up a word, but poetic license is irrevocable.”
Vanna Bonta
“LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox:I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire. That stupid shepherd lolling on his crook With deaf attention scarcely deigns to look. I bide my time, and it shall come at length, When, with a Titan's energy and strength, I'll grab a fistful of the strings, and O, The word shall suffer when I let them go! --Farquharson Harris”
Ambrose Bierce
“The poetic temperament is the worst for golf.”
Walter Simpson
“A memorable quote requires a shake of semantic shenanigans and a pinch of poetic pulchritude.”
Rain Bojangles
“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
Milan Kundera
“No poetic justice, no happy end. Just reality, just life my friend.”
Dedrick D. L. Pitter
“She was illusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork-board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”
Jerry Spinelli
“Love encompasses so much, reaches so far, and heals so deeply, that any attempt to describe it, no matter how poetic, only dilutes it.”
Steve Maraboli
