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#imagery

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What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.


Mos Def


#economy #effective #ends #entire #i

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.


William Wiley


#attracted #been #desire #drawn #i

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


#imagery #inspirational #love #lovers #metaphor

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.


Jurgen Habermas


#american #attackers #buildings #cause #collapse

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.


Augustine of Hippo


#books #broad-mindedness #classic #education #imagery

When I saw "Ulysses" on Georgie's bedside table and Tom Finch's name written on it in a scrawl so like my old man's, I felt that I wanted to read it as a preparation for what's about to happen to us all. I understand where the brawny part of my father and I come from - Bill. I'm not saying bill's not smart, but my old man is a pretty intelligent guy and that kind of intellect came from tome Finch. I want to turn the pages he turned. But honestly I'm actually finding it hard. I think that the whole world has lied and nobody has read the book completely. It's a conspiracy up there with Roswell.


Melina Marchetta


#location- #intelligence

My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins


Cynthia Hand


#metaphor #beauty

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.


Terry Brooks


#i #i think #imagery #language #make

Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and the blaze of Venus to remind one of the absolute and the infinite ... and along the lower rim of beauty lay the hard harsh line of the hills ...


John Coldstream


#description #imagery #natural-world #silk #sunset

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and could have bitten her tongue for thus reminding Peter that he had wanted to marry her. Of course I did, thought Peter; it almost broke my heart too, he thought; and was overcome with his own grief, which rose like a moon looked at from a terrace, ghastly beautiful with light from the sunken day. I was more unhappy than I've ever been since, he thought. And as if in truth he were sitting there on the terrace he edged a little towards Clarissa; put his hand out; raised it; let it fall. There above them it hung, that moon. She too seemed to be sitting with him on the terrace, in the moonlight.


Virginia Woolf


#imagery #love #marriage #melancholy #moon






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