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Letter "S" » shapeless
«Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.»
Author: Italo Calvino
(Essayist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
continents, distances, dust cloud, invades, resembling, shapeless
«The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.»
Author: Leon Edel
| Keywords:
biography, discovering, happenings, irrelevant, link, overlap, overlapping, shapeless, The Link
«Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.»
«It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.»
«That delicate forest flower,With scented breath and look so like a smile,Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mould,An emanation of the indwelling Life,A visible token of the upholding Love,That are the soul of this great universe.»
Author: William Cullen Bryant
(Writer)
| Keywords:
delicate, emanation, emanations, forest, indwelling, issues, mould, scented, scenting, scents, shapeless, The Tokens, token, upheld, upholding
«All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
About us, Action The, celestial, crystal, crystals, crystal clear, Flint, flints, masses, materials, shapeless, the Crystal, transparent
«Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name; So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be»
«Born a shapeless lump, like Anarchy.»
«I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
abroad, dully, entreat, entreating, entreats, idleness, shapeless, wear out, wonders
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