Imagery In Literature Quotes & Sayings

I'm very impressed by the imagery in the 'Apologia', which is a kind of sustained poem. It's not just a piece of apologetics of the sort you find in Jesuit literature: 'Why I came over', and so on. It's a tremendously rewarding book but requires perseverance on the part of the reader. — John Cornwell

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works. — Danny Fox

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. — John Updike

I mean, I am pretty fabulous. Am I not?'
'You're a pillar of fabulosity in the community,' I tell him. — John Green

We followed the tale laid out for us, the prose pinned down in every square foot of space we'd acquired. We were content with the plot twists that only mildly redirected our lives. We signed on the dotted line for the things we didn't know we cared about. We ate the things we shouldn't, spent money when we couldn't, lost sight of the Earth we had to inhabit and wasted wasted wasted everything. Food. Water. Resources. Soon — Tahereh Mafi

We have a tremendous investment in facilities for (internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see throwing them away just because the electric car doesn't emit fumes. — Henry Ford II

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything. — Patricia Wentworth

She leaped onto the serpent's head and scratched and growled like a really angry black wig. — Rick Riordan

In each medium - popular music, literature, and visual art, respectively - the woman has broken form, shed a skin, with each phase of her career, whereas the man has returned to ever-deepening iterations of the sound or sentence or imagery with which he began. — Stacey D'Erasmo

It is possible for a Christian to be perfectly orthodox and yet to be defeated, and to be living a defeated and a useless life. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing. We take it for granted so simply that in a sense, by the very act of brutish routine acceptance, we undo the work of the ages, the history of the gradual elaboration of poetical description and construction, from the treeman to Browning, from the caveman to Keats. What if we awake one day, all of us, and find ourselves utterly unable to read? I wish you to gasp not only at what you read but at the miracle of its being readable. — Vladimir Nabokov

You can't expect your children to be perfect. — Grace Jones

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD. — Gemma Arterton