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Imagery Quotes

"So the freshness lives onin a lemon,in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,the proportions, arcane and acerb."

"So the freshness lives onin a lemon,in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,the proportions, arcane and acerb."

Pablo Neruda, Chilean Writer

Imagery, Poetry, Nature, Freshness, Detail

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"We rode on the winds of the rising storm,We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts,and tore the world asunder."

"We rode on the winds of the rising storm,We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts,and tore the world asunder."

Robert Jordan, American Author

Imagery, Storm, Dance, Destruction, Power

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"The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Swarming its own shadows, the dust filtered over the tents."

"The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Swarming its own shadows, the dust filtered over the tents."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Imagery, Atmosphere, Life, Environment

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"His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night."

"His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Imagery, Description, Emotion, Darkness

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"Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her breast buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen, with the stars in her eyes and the wind in her hair- He took her bag."

"Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her breast buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen, with the stars in her eyes and the wind in her hair- He took her bag."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Imagery, Nature, Innocence, Beauty, Romance

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"She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare."

"She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Imagery, Appearance, Contrast, Chaos, Nightmare

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"It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us."

"It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us."

Ian McEwan, British Author

Imagery, Photography, Time, Innocence, Memory

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