Quotes of Playful - somelinesforyou

“ Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. ”

- Maxwell Bodenheim

“ For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. ”

- Maxwell Bodenheim

“ There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile. ”

- Edward Hoagland

“ Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention. ”

- Brendan Gill

“ Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things. ”

- J. R. R. Tolkien

“ For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. ”

- Sylvia Plath

“ There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments… ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. ”

- Thomas Arnold
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