#freshness

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#commonplace #did #done #effect #freshness

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#centuries #freshness #joy #lightness #linked

Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well. ↗

— Roberta Williams

#enchanting #fresh #freshness #game #important

Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#alive #breeze #crisp #drunk #drunken

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you. ↗

— Brian Moore

#figures #freshness #inside #longer #normal

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#bird #eden #ever #fall #first

Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader. ↗

— Geoff Ryman

#freedom #freshness #healing #honesty #literature

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness. ↗

— John Bradshaw

#energy #find #freshness #more #passion

Does Ziploc make body bags? I’ll bet the corpses would stay fresher for longer if they did.
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— Jarod Kintz

#corpse #death #decomposing #decomposition #die

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#expressive #freshness #genius #humbles #illiterate