Rawness Quotes

I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time. (Ted Kennedy)
She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook. View quote
George Meredith
Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness. View quote
Martin Puryear
If you demand on the other hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry. View quote
Marianne Moore
Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. View quote
A. E. Housman
Dancing is very like poetry. It's like poetic lyricism, sometimes, it's like the rawness of dramatic poetry, it's like the terror - or it can be like a terrible revelation of meaning. Because when you light on a word it strikes you to your heart. View quote
Martha Graham
The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go 'round and 'round. View quote
Billy Gibbons
There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance. View quote
Chad Smith
Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down. View quote
Ian McShane
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment. View quote
Kelly Wearstler
I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that. (LisaRaye McCoy-Misick)
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. View quote
A. E. Housman