aphoristic

• “Both are brief and although the criticisms of Hegel are clearly intelligible, the statements constituting the “new philosophy” are often rhetorical and aphoristic, which is one of the reasons they are often judged to be unsatisfactory as philosophy.”

  Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

• “He believed that in a world where visual language has overpowered the written word, narrative non-fiction could satisfy the need for reflective engagement more than any kind of aphoristic expression.”

  The Hindu - Front Page

• “He was quite as able to be terse and memorable when in conversation and, like Oscar Wilde (who was, like him, disconcertingly vast when seen at close quarters), seems seldom to have been off duty when it came to the epigrammatic and aphoristic.”

  Demons and Dictionaries

• “The aphoristic last lines are a little lesson on humility.”

  The Guardian: Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson

• “Intriguing, but some of it borders on the tritely aphoristic.”

  August « 2009 « Squares of Wheat

• “Here as elsewhere, Pennac's aphoristic style puts the ooh-la-la in Gallic shrug:”

  Archive 2009-03-01

• “Ms. Hirliman fired off brief, aphoristic replies and taped them back up for all to see.”

  georgelle hirliman | writer in the window « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground

• “The fragments of concrete poetry that make up the bulk of Free Cell honor the rapid-fire plausibility of waking thought, which is to say the collection's often self-contained stanzas are by turns intimate, aphoristic, and incoherent -- but never less than truthful.”

  The Huffington Post: Seth Abramson: December 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews

• “In interview Guggenheim waxes both prophetic and aphoristic: "Politics are essential.”

  The Huffington Post: Ruth Starkman: Waiting for Solutions

• “Bloom has always been an admirer of an aphoristic aesthete tradition alongside his ostensibly more robust canon of poets.”

  The Guardian: The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review

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