Quotes for All
As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire. Evelyn … Read more
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim that ours is the era of individualism. Ours is merely a more poignant repetition of the phenomenon of all history: every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, … Read more
Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters. Elizabeth Lowell
griefs, when divided become less poignant. Eliza Parsons
Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse. Elie Wiesel
What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and had large tonal ambitions. A movie that could be poignant and funny, and suddenly quite violent. To have a character utterly sideswiped, and to learn that life is about balance. Edward Norton
Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It’s a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in the 1940s whom Gore Vidal once considered a rival. Edmund White
It’s fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There’s something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals. Eddie Vedder
You will meet their children through their eyes. One of the most poignant moments is when I asked each to describe the moment they found out their child had been killed. So this is a very personal side to each one of these mothers [\”Mothers of the Movement\”]. Ed Gordon
A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity \”on a square yard of space. Fyodor … Read more