290 Quotes About Imagery
- Author Theodore Roethke
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I've recovered my tenderness by long looking;I'm a Socrates of small fury.The waves bends with the fish. I'm taughtAs water teaches stone. Believe me, extremest oriole,I can hear light on a dry day.The world is where we fling it; I'm leaving where I am.
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- Author Jack London
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In the height of the gusts, in my high position, where the seas did not break, I found myself compelled to cling tightly to the rail to escape being blown away. My face was stung to severe pain by the high-driving spindrift, and I had a feeling that the wind was blowing the cobwebs out of my sleep-starved brain.
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- Author Stormy Smith
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Now I was falling faster than a comet plummeting to the earth, just waiting to create a giant explosion. Just like a comet, I had no idea exactly how much damage I would leave in my wake.
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- Author Ali Smith
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And after that, I watched our house collapse in on itself and I spent some time lying in the rubble. Then I vanished completely. I wasn't here at all. Then you phoned.
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- Author Carl Hiaasen
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He paused and manufactured a chuckle.
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- Author Y.A. Salimu
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It can get difficult to count the rungs of a ladder when you have never seen the top.
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- Author David Halberstam
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the ability to get on the air, which was crucial to any reporter’s career, grew precisely as the ability to analyze diminished.
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- Author Claude Lévi-Strauss
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From time to time, too, and for the space of two or three paces, an image or an echo would rise up from the recesses of time: in the little streets of the beaters of silver and gold, for instance, there was a clear, unhurried tinkling, as if a djinn with a thousand arms was absent-mindedly practising on a xylophone.
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- Author Amber Dawn
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Morning came in through the blinds cutting everything into ribbons.
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