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Letter "I" » intensities
«Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Anarchy
| Keywords:
anarchy, bad blood, center, ceremony, conviction, dimmed, dimming, dims, drowned, fall apart, innocence, intensities, intensity, loosed, passionate, The Anarchy, The Center, Things Fall Apart, tide
«It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable»
«Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
burn, garret, intensities, intensity
«The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
disagreeable, evaporate, evaporates, excellencies, Excellency, intensities, intensity
«People happy in love have an air of intensity»
«Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.»
Author: Thomas Merton
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Happiness
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balance, harmony, intensities, intensity, rhythm, rhythm and
«The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
conviction, intensities, intensity, passionate
«Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
art, contact, degree, derive, deriving, do work, experience, feelings, from, furnish, furnished with, furnishing, greatest, happy, Having, intensities, intensity, in degree, other, out of work, personally, pleasure, pleasuring, realms, such, such as, The Greatest, to that degree, works, work over, work through, work up
«A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
corpses, intensities, intensity
«All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| Keywords:
answered, bogey, capped, caps, dislikes, early childhood, encountered, face value, heroes, intensities, labeled, masks, penetrable, races, stocking, stockings, tactic, tactics, the town, town, unanswered
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