“O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.” DreamEyePoetryWomenPerfectBeautyPoetCloudsPoetry IsPaleRhymeEyelidsPerfect Beauty Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry is all passionate and feeling and animates the inanimate; Metaphysics are most perfect when concerned with universals; Poetry, when most concerned with particulars.” MindFeelingsSpiritualPoetryPerfectPoetConcernedPhilosophicalPassionateSensesPoetry IsMetaphysicsAntithesis Author:Samuel Beckett
“In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.” GivingEndsCountryFeelingsPoetryPerfectExpressionFriendsGive MeOriginalsSympathyCompanionshipCountry Life Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.” MaySometimesPoetryUnderstandingPerfectPleasureDrawsPoetic Author:A. E. Housman
“A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.” WorldEndsPoetryPerfectImpossibleWrittenPoetStealingMatureImmature Author:Robert Graves
“Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.” WritingPoetryPerfectPoetry IsHuntingElusiveVerbsNouns Author:J. Patrick Lewis
“"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and that every word we say echoes to the remotest star."That poetic paranoia is a perfect description of what the Sun, as a gravitational lens, could do for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.” KnowsWellsWholeMomentsPoetryUniverseStarsPerfectSunListeningDescriptionPoeticEchoesLensesParanoiaExtraterrestrial Author:Frank Drake
“I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit...” ThinkingBookPoetryLiteraturePerfectCryFitEmptyFilledLandscapeNicheEcologicalPerfect Fit Author:Edmund White
“There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.” WisdomPoetryQuotesLiteraturePerfectBeautyBalanceThoughtsPerfectionPoetry QuotesImperfectionImperfectDejan StojanovicLiterature QuotesJuxtaposition Author:Dejan Stojanovic