Quote:- I've been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators — Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac in particular, Burne-Jones and other Pre-Raphaelites, and the Arts-&-Crafts movement they engendered. I'm continually inspired by Rembrandt, Breughel (I've wondered whether his brilliant "Tower of Babel" had inspired Tolkien's description of Minas Tyrith), Hieronymous Bosch, Albrecht Durer, and Turner; it's not necessarily that they influence my work in any particular direction, more that their example raises my spirits, re-affirms my belief in the power of images to move and delight us, and shows me how much further I have to go, how much is possible. Having visited Venice and Florence for the first time, I am besotted with the Italian Renaissance artists — Botticelli, Bellini, da Vinci and others. Their work is calm, controlled, and yet each face and landscape contains such passion. In Botticelli's paintings, every pebble and every leaf is rendered with a religious devotion; there is reverence inherent in paying such close attention to every stone, turning painting itself into a form of worship, an act of prayer.
Author:- Alan Lee
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- I've changed my ways a little, I cannot nowRun with you in the evenings along the shore,Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment,You see me there.
Author:- Robinson Jeffers
Category:- time
Quote:- I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
Author:- Robert Frost
Category:- poetry
Quote:- I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.
Author:- Craig Ferguson
Category:- poetry
Quote:- I've had a lot of relationships in my time, platonic or otherwise, but the ones I think about most are those that never quite made it to term. The dashing first date who didn't call you back. The lady on the train you had that amazing conversation with but never saw again. The cool neighbor kid you met the first time a week before he moved away. I guess I'm haunted by all that potential energy.
Saga, Volume 7
Author:- Brian K. Vaughan
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.
Author:- Kenneth Rexroth
Category:- poetry
Quote:- I've heard people describe marriage as two missing pieces of a puzzle coming together, and discovering that they are a perfect fit. But that's just wrong. People are different and that's a good thing. Two pieces of different puzzles cannot and will not fit together, unless one has been forced to bend or break or change to fit the other
Rock Paper Scissors
Author:- Alice Feeney
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- I've lost count of those Father's and Mother's Days. In short, you don't need a schedule to express your love to your parents. Love them while they're still alive.
Author:- Mwanandeke Kindembo
Category:- Love
Quote:- I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.
Diary of a Drug Fiend
Author:- Aleister Crowley
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- I've triedto become someone else for a while,only to discover that he, too, was me.
Author:- Stephen Dunn
Category:- poetry
Quote:- I've welcomed all the hardships while staying undaunted & I've transcended above myself.
Author:- Paarth Wassan
Category:- motivational
Quote:- I've wondered. Of course I have. And I love Byatt more than anything, more than myself, more than the life I had before Raxter. But I know the warmth in my heart when I look at her. How it burns smooth and even, without a spark.
Wilder Girls
Author:- Rory Power
Category:- Love
Quote:- I’d like to be an example of no matter how dark and thick and hopeless it feels, for years maybe, things can and will change.
Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself: growing up is a wonderful thing to do
Author:- Charlotte Eriksson
Category:- hope,motivational
Quote:- I’d thought that gazing at her would satisfy my raging fire but instead I was aching all over.
Lemon Twist
Author:- Anoir Ou-Chad
Category:- Love
Quote:- I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.
The Reckoning
Author:- Sharon Kay Penman
Category:- hope