Poiesis Quotes & Sayings

She was really strong around me. Having me at 16 had to have been a big responsibility. My mom gave up everything for me, had three jobs, supported me, sacrificed her life for me. — Selena Gomez

New Rule: If you married a manic-depressive, three of your children died, and while you were president civil war broke out and someone shot you in the head, your coin really shouldn't say, In God We Trust. — Bill Maher

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same. — Jock Sturges

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that. — Miley Cyrus

Dream ...
Dream of you
Dream of us
Together, forever. — Ardianto Sony

That's how hearts get broken, you know. When you believe in promises. — Kathleen Glasgow

God is not to be blamed for your inability to fulfill your destiny — Sunday Adelaja

Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own ... — Tom Waits

The word poetry comes from the Greek word poiesis which just means "a making". So if you've made it, it's poetry. Even if it's breakfast. — Benedict Smith

Care of my heart won't you, Sophie? It's a little odd having it outside my body - but I'm planning to steal yours to make up for it. - Handwritten note from Max to Sophia — Nalini Singh

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone. — Richard Paul Evans

I could wish to spy the nakedness of their hearts, and through the different disguises of customs, climates, and religion, find out what is good in them, to fashion my own by. It is for this reason that I have not seen the Palais Royal - nor the facade of the Louvre - nor have attempted to swell the catalogues we have of pictures, statues, and churches - I conceive every fair being as a temple, and would rather enter in, and see the original drawings and loose sketches hung up in it, than the Transfiguration of Raphael itself. — Laurence Sterne

The physicists who look at their objects within their limitations teach physics; those who see the limitations they place around their objects teach "physics." For them physics is a poiesis. — James P. Carse

I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head. — Gillian Flynn

The pressure is hard. You get - the world is only watching every four years, and I think lots of people feel like they have to win in that time frame. — Allyson Felix

If, however, the observers see the poiesis in the work they cease at once being observers. They find themselves in its time, aware that it remains unfinished, aware that their reading of the poetry is itself poetry. Infected then by the genius of the artist they recover their own genius, becoming beginners with nothing but possibility ahead of them. — James P. Carse

There would be a price ... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop? — Terry Pratchett

There's no such thing as good weather, or bad weather. There's just weather and your attitude towards it. — Louise Hay