Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.

Camille Paglia

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

C. K. Williams

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.

Edith Sitwell

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ...

Charles Simic

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Natasha Trethewey

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Diane Ackerman

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

David Krumholtz

I would do prosthetics again, but not on a schedule like that [in Gigi Does It]. It was grueling and brutal and it almost killed me. That show almost killed me.

Cal Thomas

The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

Charlie Munger

Capitalism is a pretty brutal place.

Arthur Frank Burns

We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.

Gareth Peirce

she wrote in a statement. ''If there are 'memoranda of understanding' between this country and the brutal regimes from which they have fled, those have not been provided to those men or to us.

Lorraine Reed

Yesterday, I stood before you as a victim - a victim of a brutal homicide.

Lawrence Powell

We've solved our crime problem in a brutally Darwinian way.

Denise Outen

When I meet a new guy, straight away I'm questioning whether he's The One. You have to be brutal at my age, if it doesn't feel right, you have to move on.

Nigel Roberts

She will have to persuade her caucus to be quite brutal but that's the price they will have to pay to stay in power.

Markus Zusak

I am haunted by humans.

Edward G. Robinson

Nothing human is foreign to us

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Ben Affleck

I'm human, just like anybody else.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Leroy Hood

What is unique about humans is their individuality.

Ben Okri

I know that human beings are capable of anything.

Edward Abbey

Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

Noam Chomsky

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.