The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly ...
VICTOR HUGO More modern poetry is written than read.
P. J. O'ROURKE I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English ...
SALLY KIRKLAND I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.
ALAINA HUFFMAN I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.
ALEXA DAVALOS Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive h...
HELEN KELLER Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhaust...
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated b...
HELEN MIRREN The English soldier was probably the worst-treated soldier in Europe, and judging from the English c...
J. CHRISTOPHER HEROLD It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europ...
LAFCADIO HEARN The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all ...
BERNARD PIVOT By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, En...
MAX BEERBOHM I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.
EVA GREEN I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, an...
SEBASTIAN ARCELUS The Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of S...
JOE LIEBERMAN English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be ...
EDWARD SAPIR Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history.
ARISTOTLE Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious
attention than history.
UNKNOWN When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poet...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.
MARK TWAIN French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of com...
ALMA GLUCK French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; ...
LAFCADIO HEARN Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or Englis...
KARL LAGERFELD I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.
META GOLDING You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern E...
JOHN RUSKIN If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English
WILFRED SHEED Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
SEAMUS HEANEY Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history...
ARISTOTLE The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.
STEPHANIE PERKINS I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. ...
JAY PARINI French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.
ROBERT KIYOSAKI Another significant influence, other than Chabrier - is from Satie, who had a notable effect on Debu...
MAURICE RAVEL Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't...
JAMES FENTON There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.
BRYANT MCGILL The cliche is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in cliches, s...
GERALD BRENAN Extreme disappointment is an understatement. This jury found more liability for matt carter than the...
BRUCE POSTON Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indiffere...
OCTAVIO PAZ A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more viole...
P. D. JAMES [Poetry] is a field where England can take on all challengers.
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than th...
KAREN MAITLAND In modern times, beauty is more trusted than goodness.
AMIT KALANTRI Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or Fr...
CYRIL CUSACK A pate is nothing more than a French meat loaf that's had a couple of cocktails.
CAROL CUTLER The irony of this endeavor is palpable, for English itself is a hopeless hodgepodge of other tongues...
GEORGE TAKEI Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whali...
MELVIN MADDOCKS I'm a little distracted by this English French American Boy Masterpiece.
STEPHANIE PERKINS Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And...
JOHN MCWHORTER Few realise that English poetry is rather like the British constitution, surrounded by pompous prece...
AUSTIN CLARKE It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and th...
DAVID SEDARIS One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB Our biggest vending machine sellers are The Wok Cookbook and a French-English dictionary.
XAVIER CHAMBON I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed t...
J. G. BALLARD The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
CARINE ROITFELD One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being ...
MURIEL RUKEYSER The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
WILFRID LAURIER The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for...
LAFCADIO HEARN It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in En...
LAFCADIO HEARN 'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfr...
PAT BARKER To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rat...
LESLIE FIEDLER Poetry and aesthetics are far more enthralling than sex.
VANNA BONTA ...the trouble with poetry is
that it encourages the writing of more poetry...
BILLY COLLINS Dexter Morgan is more like disguise and influence... and everything = fake.
DEYTH BANGER We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems thems...
CARL SANDBURG Acquisition of English is much more rapid because (non-English-speaking students) are surrounded by ...
DENISE WALTERS Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialec...
WILLIAM LABOV More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal.
MELVYN BRAGG The question posed by Yossarian in 'Catch-22,' ... is one of the great questions of modern times: Is...
MARK BOWDEN There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
JOHN BUCHANAN ROBINSON There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
GEORGE F. WILL I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
KAPIL SIBAL Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmospher...
JAMES MARTINEAU It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darknes...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure ...
PRESTON STURGES The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
JACK PRELUTSKY Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself.
AUSTIN CLARKE The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.
PAUL KEATING The Chillicothe mill is a much newer mill, more modern, more efficient and more productive than the ...
RICK WHITMYRE The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim...
MICHAEL SERVETUS The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice...
PATTI SMITH I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exp...
MARK STRAND What it is that makes Morgan Morgan would disappear,
DAVID BERRY Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than se...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than se...
LEONARDO DA VINCI I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purp...
ALFRED NOBEL We ran as if to meet the moon.
ROBERT FROST The best anthology is the one each reader compiles, personally, according to his or her judgment, pl...
ROBERT PINSKY In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespea...
AARON LAZAR Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the
English that of the sea, to the G...
THOMAS CARLYLE I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul...
PATRICK FUGIT When I came to the Met, Robert Merrill and Leonard Warren sounded more like basses than most of the ...
JEROME HINES It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation ...
GERALDINE BROOKS The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, w...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT This is a watershed decision.
ANDREW GEORGE Ssssshhhhh!
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COLIN MORGAN My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very di...
MORGAN BRITTANY Hate generalises, love specifies
ROBIN MORGAN I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you...
MORGAN FREEMAN I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.
TRACY MORGAN We can’t know what’s going to happen. We can just try to figure it out as we go along.
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MORGAN MATSON My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl...
TRACY MORGAN I can always forgive where I understand.
JUDE MORGAN I was hoping we'd stretch out the lead a little more, because I knew they were going to come back. T...
BRIAN MORGAN We stopped a lot of their easy baskets. We talked at halftime that we were giving up too many (baske...
BRIAN MORGAN We talked about taking him (out) after the sixth, decided we'd take him out if he allowed a runner i...
BRIAN MORGAN You never want to get swept by your rivals, but at this point in the season, a win against anyone is...
BRIAN MORGAN Our kids are tired. They're out having to cut trees and fix fences. You can tell their minds are som...
BRADLEY MORGAN Our kids are tired,
BRADLEY MORGAN