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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Quote by Antonin Artaud about poetry, poets

Written in blood - and Bigotry may swell. The sail he spreads for Heaven with blasts from hell!

EQuote by Edward Moore about poetry, blood, hell

These songs were written in a better place and time. They seem like they were written in this place of romantic innocence. They're songs that have already outlived most of their composers.

Quote by Michael Bolton about innocence, time

Some days I'm there on my own and Keith walks in and plays the bass on what I've written. Some days I play the piano on something he's written.

Quote by Mick Jagger about day

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Quote by Brian Aldiss about literature, fiction, science

What a big book would be written with all that the humanity knows.

Quote by Jules Verne about books, humanity

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about art, language, imagination

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about technology, humanity, word, books, reason

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about books

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Quote by Lynn Abbey

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about old, olderness, time

Magic works differently for every author who's written for the series.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about magic

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love, word, contentment

The books I've written for gaming companies are a like games of miniature golf where the object is to weave an interesting story through an obstacle course.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about games, companies, obstacles, books

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about word, art, magic, poets

What has just been written will probably do for the Heroic Age which produced Homer, and for that which produced the Nibelungenlied, Beowulf, and the Northern Sagas.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about age, olderness

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about word, music, literature, film, contentment

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

Quote by Victoria Abril about career

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Quote by Dean Acheson about writers

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Quote by Lord Acton about eternity, fall, change, moral