Li-Young Lee
Poet
"Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page."
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Potency
14 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ralph Ellison
Novelist, Essayist
"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Use almost can change the stamp of nature."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something."
Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics."
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"Vanity is a motive of immense potency."
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"Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe."
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