Intense

Famous quotes containing the word intense:

“In vision, they speak
with another race,
more beautiful, more intense than this.
I could laugh
more beautiful, more intense?”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“It’s incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)