#distort

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

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All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

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Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit. ↗

— Robert J. Flaherty

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Live interviews are more difficult to distort. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

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We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change. ↗

— Chuck Jones

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For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

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