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«The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.»
Author: Italo Calvino (Essayist, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: attraction, confines, dictionary, escape from, stirs, stretches, The Call, utmost
«The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.»
Author: James Allen (Statesman) | About: Achievement | Keywords: acorn, acorns, Angel, bird, egg, oak, realities, seedling, seedlings, sleeps, stirs, The Bird, waking
«What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?»
Author: Robert Southey (Poet, Writer) | About: Women | Keywords: gentle, spirit up, stirs
«You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox | About: Heart, Words | Keywords: connoisseur, connoisseurs, from the heart, polish, polishes, polishing, stays, stirs, swaying, sways, The Connoisseur
«Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?»
Author: Bertrand Russell (Logician, Philosopher) | Keywords: friendly, propaganda, stir, stirs, stir up, tries
«Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: arms, breast, breasted, exercise, leap, leapt, leap out, meals, muscles, muscle into, now and then, quarter, small arms, stirs, swing, Swing On, swing over, swung, the like, The Swing, weight, weighted
«The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: appetites, propagandist, propagandists, skillful, stirs
«Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.»
Author: Vauvenargues, Marquis de | Keywords: fights, stirs
«The blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: hare, rouse, rouses, rousing, stirs
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