Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Michel Foucault

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Milan Kundera

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Saul Alinsky

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Salvador Dali

Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

Viggo Mortensen

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

Walter Jon Williams

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

William Wordsworth

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

Allen Ginsberg

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

Anthony Hecht

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Archibald MacLeish

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

Azar Nafisi

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Bob Dylan

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

Carl Sandburg

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

Douglas Dunn

Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.

David Hunt

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

Ellen Bass

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

Eugenio Montale

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Eugenio Montale

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

F. Sionil Jose

Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.

Franz Wright