“ Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;Thyself from thine affectionTakest warmth enough, and from thine eyeAll lesser birds will take their jollity.Up, up, fair bride, and callThy stars from o… John Donne
“ We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but create visual narratives in our heads. John Green
“ We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but create visual narratives in our heads.So too often what passes for literary criticism is "I couldn't p… John Green
“ What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be g… Erik Pevernagie
“ Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop. Nuno Roque
“ He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life. H.W. Brands
“ In a valley shaded with rhododendrons, close to the snow line, where a stream milky with meltwater splashed and where doves and linnets flew among the immense pines, lay a cave, half, hidden by the cr… Philip Pullman
“ No human metal had gone into the forging of that blade. It was alive with moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so thin that it seemed to almost vanish when seen edge on. There was a faint blue s… George R.R. Martin
“ Some powerful magnificence not human in other words, seemed under me. And it was the same mild pink colour, like the water of a watermelon, that did it. At once I recognised the importance of this, as… Saul Bellow
“ Now this greatest tent staled out hot raw breaths of earth, confetti that was ancient when the canals of Venice were not yet staked, and wafts of pink cotton candy like tired feather boas. In rushing… Ray Bradbury
“ When an image depends on the next for a complete meaning, it moves the story and audience along without choking them with pathos Val Uchendu
“ And after that, I watched our house collapse in on itself and I spent some time lying in the rubble. Then I vanished completely. I wasn't here at all. Then you phoned. Ali Smith
“ I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing. Les Claypool
“ He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within. Barbara W. Tuchman
“ It is deep January. The sky is hard.The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.It is in this solitude, a syllable,Out of these gawky flitterings,Intones its single emptiness,The savagest hollow of winter-sou… Wallace Stevens
“ There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the nihilism. This is where seduction begins. Jean Baudrillard
“ [About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned wi… Niels Bohr
