Poignancy Quotations

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.

Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

I am used to doing exhibits in very charged locations, but none has more poignancy than Ground Zero,

The fact that she would have been 40 has added to the poignancy this year and I just hope we are doing the best we can for her without having her around any more.

If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.

there was a reluctance to go forward until everyone felt there was a script that echoed the kind of sincerity and values the first one had, and had some poignancy like the first one had.

There's a wonderful sadness and poignancy about those Finnish films. They have people adrift at the mercy of fate. They're heartwarming. I also find them funny. I suppose that makes me an optimist.

We mourn with you in this moment of grief. Our hearts go out to the bright young men and women who were on that spacecraft. For us in India, we felt that since one of them was an Indian-born woman it adds a special poignancy to the tragedy,