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Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.


Seamus Heaney
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Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.
Amy Gerstler
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The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.
Gilbert Murray
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
Franz Liszt
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
Carlisle Floyd
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No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
H. P. Lovecraft
I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.
Athol Fugard
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I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.
Morris Graves
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Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.
Spoken Reasons
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The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.


Bernard Werber
Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
Tim Robbins
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.


Jorge Luis Borges
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For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
Samuel Alexander
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I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget.
Tom Daschle
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St. Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council because he understood, as no Holy Father had in a long time, religion spoke to and found its language and symbols - its entire sense of the sacramental nature of existence - in the imagination that reveals not just the penalties of living, but the wonder and awe of our existence.
Eugene Kennedy
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.
Mark Rothko
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I'm drawn to roles because they excite me intellectually and emotionally.


Kim Cattrall
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At the Super Bowl, when Beyonce was thrusting her hips forward in a very suggestive manner, if someone else had done that, it would've been a national scandal. I thought it was ridiculous.
Donald Trump
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People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.


Matt Reeves
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.


Robert Frost