Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.
A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so remorsely into war and imperial expansion abroad.
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry. . . to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
There's an amount of love that can never - no matter what - be taken away or torn apart, no matter the situation. There are certain people who you will always, always love.
Vengeous scowled. 'As you can see,' he said, 'you are vastly outnumbered. ' I usually am. ' Your situation has become quite untenable. ' It usually does. ' You are within moments of being swarmed by these filthy creatures of undeath and torn apart in a maelstrom of pain and fury. ' Skulduggery paused. 'Okay, that's a new one on me.
The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.
I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.
The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I wanted 'Torn Apart' to be extremely accessible and readable.
I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.
Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.
I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are destroyed and treatment is difficult to get.
I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.
Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?
If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.
They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.
Each act of unfaithfulness toward our inner being is a blot on our souls. If we continue to be unfaithful, our souls are eventually torn apart and we slowly bleed to death.
When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.
The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.
Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy.
