#distort

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Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.


Robert Morgan


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One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.


Robert Morgan


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One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.


Robert Morgan


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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.


Agnes Repplier


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All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.


Joshua Reynolds


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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.


Mark Twain


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Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.


Robert J. Flaherty


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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.


Percy Bysshe Shelley


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People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.


Tracy Chapman


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If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.


Sharon Olds


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