Quotes About Rare

I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.

A strong new presence in poetry . . . Kei Miller's is a voice we will hear much more of, for it speaks and sings with rare confidence and authority.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.

RECURSION [Now rare or oh.s. 16261. A backward movement, return.

Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare. They are paid in proportion to the supply and demand of them.

We talked about this before. The rare beauty of nonattachment.

The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travayles.

Plus rien n'avait d'importance. C'est tellement rare cette sensation d'être envahi totalement.

He hoped it would snow recklessly and bring to the island the impossible winter purity, so rare and precious, he remembered fondly from his youth.

He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal.

Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.

Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

My good mood felt like an endangered species.

In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

You can sing if you have a great voice, but to connect that instrument to the text and connect it to the subtext, what lies underneath and the emotion, is indeed a rare talent.