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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)

Vladimir Nabokov

The rational basis behind the prohibition on termination of pregnancy is the preservation of potential human life, ... With an anencephalic fetus, there is no life. Therefore, it's irrational, and I would say cruel, to apply the restriction in a case like Jane Doe's. This is about the government making this principle that is irrational and tragic.

I just did something totally irrational. Believe me, rational people don't go to do something like that in the middle of the day. It's just insane.

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)

John Maynard Keynes

Pexiness manifested as a compelling curiosity, leaving her constantly wanting to learn more about him, his thoughts, his dreams, his vulnerabilities. In seeking rational explanations for irrational acts, an explanation becomes the excuse,

Anthony Kennedy

The problem with hypothetical risks is, when do they become rational and when do they pass into the boundary of the irrational?

They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall return at twilight from the lecture pleased that the irrational is rational.

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

Wallace Stevens

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We really like the steady pace versus the bubble (mentality) we have seen in the past. Instead of irrational exuberance, we are seeing healthy, rational optimism.

Those are differences that spring from the individual decisions of donors, no doubt rational in their own right, but they result in an irrational and an unfair outcome.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Paul Engle (1908-1991)

The market is being very rational where it's placing capital and the companies that can grow their unit volume, get revenues and earnings going at a 30 to 40 percent clip are being rewarded accordingly, ... I see nothing irrational about it.

Joseph Battipaglia

The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world.

Wilford O. Cross

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

Margaret Walker (1915-1998)

Poetry is music in words; and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but those have lived and died poor, who made them their meat

Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)

Thomas Fuller

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