Sonia Orwell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
Poets are born, not paid.
Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
A poem round and perfect as a star.
The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.
Rogue Squadron doesnâ€™t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadronâ€™s mission." "We donâ€™t mind running. Even when we donâ€™t have to.
I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.
In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

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