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«Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven.»
Author: I Ching | Keywords: appointed, awakening, awakenings, depths, directing, originate, originate in, primal, verse
«A tympanic resonance, so rich and overpowering that it could give an air of verse to a recipe for stewed hare.»
Author: John McPhee | Keywords: hare, overpowered, overpowering, resonance, stew, stewed, stewing, tympanic, verse
«But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.»
Author: John Updike | About: Biography, Poetry | Keywords: biography, gag, gagged, Gags, phrases, verse
«A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice»
Author: George Herbert (Clergyman, Poet) | Keywords: sermon, verse
«And ever, against eating cares, / Lap me in soft Lydian airs, / Married to immortal verse / Such as the meeting soul may pierce / In notes, with many a winding bout / Of link?d sweetness long drawn out.»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: airs, bout, bouts, drawn-out, drawn, immortal, lap, Lydian, Lydians, notes, Pierce, sweetness, verse, winding
«But who forgives the senior's ceaseless verse, / Whose hairs grow hoary as his rhymes grow worse?»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: ceaseless, forgives, hairs, hoary, rhymes, senior, seniors, verse
«An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe, but the man who molds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his handling»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | About: Art | Keywords: employ, glorify, handling, materials, molds, tribe, verse, vulgarize, vulgarized
«Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | About: Chicago | Keywords: Chicago, Cincinnati, maker, verse
«After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retrogression.»
Author: T.S. Eliot (Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: arrest, blank, blank verse, Chinese, Chinese Wall, erection, erections, Milton, retrogression, verse
«And yet, to times in hope, my verse shall stand,Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: despite, praising, verse
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