World Quotes

One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for.

~ Alice Oswald

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

~ Octavio Paz

The topics just kind of come to me. If they are relevant, it's because they're happening in the world around me, and it's affecting me. Poetry is my way of dealing with it.

~ Rupi Kaur

There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.

~ P. J. O'rourke

I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.

~ Joseph Brodsky

I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.

~ Laura Dern

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

~ John Ruskin

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.

~ Philippe Petit

I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.

~ Vincent Cassel

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.

~ Flea

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

~ Edward Hirsch

Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.

~ Tom Hodgkinson

My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on other people's projects or could be pigeonholed in certain ways, that's not how I perceive myself.

~ Jamila Woods

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

~ Ezra Pound

I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some.

~ Anya Taylor-Joy

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

~ Mark Van Doren

I think of myself as an ambassador of the arts. In my heart of hearts, I know the world would be a more peaceful, tender place if we were more moved by the poetry around us.

~ Tim Seibles

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

~ Robert Kennedy

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

~ Francis Of Assisi

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

~ Whitney Houston

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

~ Francis Of Assisi

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

~ Haile Selassie

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

~ H. L. Mencken

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

~ Lord Byron

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

~ Thomas J. Watson

In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'

~ Malcolm X

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

~ Baruch Spinoza

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

~ Rita Mae Brown

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

~ Dalai Lama

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

~ Carl Hiaasen

As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

~ Zach Galifianakis

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

~ Bede Jarrett

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

~ Cameron Sinclair

There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

~ Noam Chomsky

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport.

~ George Foreman

The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the creation of those suicide terrorists, is Israel and the difficulty with the Palestinian issue.

~ Mario Cuomo

Yes, an individual could be electronically stimulated to fear, anger, or euphoria from a distance. However, the procedure is complicated, not always accurate, and far too tedious and expensive as a method for taking over control of the world.

~ Marilyn Ferguson

People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.

~ Howard Dean