Yusef Komunyakaa

Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.

American Poet

Victor Hugo

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

French Author

Floyd Skloot

A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.

Saint Augustine

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Saint

Ivanka Trump

As president, my father will take on the bold and worthy fights. He will be unafraid to set lofty goals, and he will be relentless in his determination to achieve them.

American Businesswoman

Zach Johnson

When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.

American Athlete

John Wycliffe

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

English Theologian

George Henry Lewes

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

English Philosopher

Thomas a Kempis

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

German Clergyman

Karen Katz

I never had lofty dreams of doing important things.

American Author

Used for describing natural or man-made structures with impressive size or beauty.

Physical Grandeur

Metaphorically expresses high ambitions or ideals.

High Aspirations

Often found in literature to evoke a sense of awe or elevation.

Literary Elevation

May imply that someone feels superior to others, sometimes used negatively.

Superiority Implication

Can suggest arrogance when describing attitudes or manners.

Perceived Arrogance

Conveys a sense of emotional detachment or lack of empathy.

Emotional Distance

Indicates setting high goals that are challenging to achieve.

Ambitious Targets

Often used to express admiration for high-quality standards or achievements.

Praise for Excellence

Highlights that something is difficult to reach or accomplish.

Not Easily Attainable

 and edit out that nauseating feeling but while keeping the memory of that person intact? Then I realized, maybe that's a little bit lofty for now. So what if we could start off by going into the brain and just finding a single memory to begin with? Could we jump-start that memory back to life,

Steve Ramirez and Xu...

 that we'd tracked all night long. I could hear their sounds eminating from the pilot house below me, but I just couldn't see them. I knew what I was looking for, this short lofty blow slanted off to the left hand side, super characteristic of sperm whale. I searched and I looked for hours

How Finding Blue Whale...

 What I learned from these people and others was that I couldn't judge them based on their failure to meet their very lofty goals. Many of them are working in deeply intractable systems -- the military, congress, the education system, etc. But what they managed to do within those systems

Courtney Martin:...

 But it leaves us with another challenge. With the climate crisis, the action that we take is separated from the impact of it, whereas what is happening with these images is these nurses are being sustained not by the lofty goal of changing the world

How to shift your...

 and quieted the audience. He politely agreed that an appropriate name for the members of the association did not exist. "If 'philosophers' is taken to be too wide and lofty a term," he said, "then, by analogy with 'artist,'

Laura Snyder: The...

 and remember who we really serve. Next, let's talk about the big E, the environment. Sustainability goals have been written into annual reports all over the world. The goals are very lofty,

How businesses can serve...

 in this environment this sounds a bit dreamy a bit lofty a bit idealistic if you will for the tough world of business well I'm very confident this is the news story and I'll tell you why I

The era of higher ideals...

 The problem is that as long as the economic and the political spheres are separate, automation makes the twin peaks taller, the waste loftier and the social conflicts deeper, including --

Capitalism will eat...

 waiting for the chance to scale the mountain's lofty, lethal peak. But why do people risk life and limb to climb Everest? Is it the challenge? The view? The chance to touch the sky?

Why is Mount Everest so...

 Instead of lofty love stories, her characters act naturally, and often awkwardly. They trade pragmatic advice, friendly jokes and not-so-friendly barbs about their arrogant peers.

Lofty