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Intensity

Seamus Heaney Quote: “In poetry, everything can be faked…”

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

August 22, 2021 1939, April 13, Irish, Quotes by Poets, Seamus Heaney

Bertrand Russell Quote: “When the intensity of emotional conviction…”

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

August 20, 2021 1872, Bertrand Russell, British, May 18, Quotes by Philosophers

Sri Chinmoy Quote: “All around us is the cosmic…”

All around us is the cosmic game, the cosmic play. The universe is full of joy, inner and outer. When realisation takes place, we have to feel the necessity of manifesting this constant delight in our heart. The delight glows, but does not burn. It has tremendous intensity, but it is all softness and absolutely sweet-flowing nectar.

June 29, 2021 1931, August 27, Indian, Quotes by Philosophers, Sri Chinmoy

William Butler Yeats Quote: “The best lack all conviction, while…”

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

May 4, 2021 1865, Irish, June 13, Quotes by Poets, William Butler Yeats

Baltasar Gracian Quote: “Fortune pays you sometimes for the…”

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

May 1, 2021 1601, Baltasar Gracian, January 8, Quotes by Philosophers, Spanish

John Keats Quote: “The excellency of every art is…”

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

April 26, 2021 1795, English, John Keats, October 31, Quotes by Poets

Seamus Heaney Quote: “I think the first little jolt…”

I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins – I liked other poems… but Hopkins was kind of electric for me – he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.

November 21, 2020 1939, April 13, Irish, Quotes by Poets, Seamus Heaney

Simon Schama Quote: “Growing up in Britain as a…”

Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn’t belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they do. The Founding Fathers made a bet that if you didn’t force everyone to profess religion in their own particular way, you could protect intellectual freedom, and religion would flourish.

August 6, 2020 1945, British, February 13, Quotes by Historians, Simon Schama

Mikhail Bakunin Quote: “To revolt is a natural tendency…”

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

May 14, 2020 1814, May 30, Mikhail Bakunin, Quotes by Revolutionaries, Russian

John Drinkwater Quote: “Poetry being the sign of that…”

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

April 18, 2020 1882, English, John Drinkwater, June 1, Quotes by Poets

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