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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | John Keats |

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Confucius |

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Ralph Waldo Emerson |

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I found among the elms something like the sound of your voice, something like the aftermath of love itself after the lightning strikes, when the startled wind shrieks... a gored-out wound in wood, love’s pale memento mori— that livid white scar... ('Memento Mori' by Michael R. Burch)

Go to Quote / Comment | Michael Burch |

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

Go to Quote / Comment | Kendix Ticha |