"The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects."

-- Roman Jakobson

#Art Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Focus Quotes

“Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.”
“Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.”

Source : Source: screenrant.com
“I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.”
“I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won't worship your beauty standards, and I don't submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher.”
“How mighty, how great the One must be, I thought, to send the heavens careening, and yet hear the cry of a single heart.”

Source : Tosca Lee (2015). “Havah: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
“To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.”

Source : Richard Mabey (2013). “The Ash and The Beech: The Drama of Woodland Change”, p.6, Random House
“My goal is always, how do you get better?”
“Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right nor left, but only forward, what earthly consequences may follow is not material. Persecution strengthens him; and so he is sure he is right, whether his course end in a prison or on a throne is no matter at all. But men of this calibre are uncommon in any age or in any country very uncommon in this age and this country.”

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