Devoured Phoenix Quotes & Sayings

Someone possessed with hunger, with a thought, with a craving, with a perversion, someone who needs their drug, someone who comes to your door in the middle of the night--they won't have light in their eyes. And that's how you know. That's what I look for. I don't look at their mouths. People lie with their mouths. I look at their eyes. — Nickolas Butler

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. — Octavio Paz

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? — James Thomson

Instinct is everything. — Bernard Cornwell

Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists. — Anthony Browne

Actions are the flowers of thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

You have to go for it. For the rest of us. — Cathy Hopkins

One of its sources [Leaf by Niggle] was a great-limbed poplar tree that I could see even lying in bed. It was suddenly lopped and mutilated by its owner, I do not know why. It is cut down now, a less barbarous punishment for any crimes it might have been accused of, such as being large and alive. I do not think it had any friends, or any mourners, except myself and a pair of owls. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music. — Kevin Shields