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«A promise more precise; the sealing of Confessions that till then were barely breathed; A rosy dot placed on the i in loving; A secret that's confided to a mouth and not to ears»
«Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking-that is imagination!»
«Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.»
Author: Kenneth Tynan
(Critic)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
comprehensible, journalist, precise, straight
«Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.»
«Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
| About:
Inventions,
Poetry
| Keywords:
geometry, invents, perfectly, precise
«A winning wave (deserving note) / In the tempestuous petticoat: / A careless shoe-string, in whose tie / I see a wild civility: / Do more bewitch me than when art / Is too precise in every part.»
Author: Robert Herrick
| Keywords:
bewitch, bewitched, bewitching, precise, shoe string, tempestuous
«Good art however ''immoral'' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.»
«Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundaries»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
age limit, determinate, marked, precise, The Last Stage
«He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
precise, psychological, psychological moment
«He was ever precise in promise-keeping.»
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