Best 312 quotes in «poetic quotes» category

I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.

I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

Life ain't a concept. Music is not a concept. My titles are poetic abstractions of something that is with me all the time, not necessarily in music, but in life. Everybody's life.

I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with his mentor, the Spanish surrealist Luis Buuel.

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream. In fact, it is the same thing.

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Patricia [Rozema] is really special, and she really worked hard to make the environment and the landscapes' natural beauty come alive. She was not forceful with anything, but enabled it to really have this poetic nature.

Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose poems. I can talk about poetic prose.

The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone who has the personal power to bring you into altered states of awareness.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

The freedom of poetic license.

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.

The moment of change is the only poem.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of creative prose.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

The poetic side of me is Scottish.

The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.

The photographer must be absorbent - like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment... His technique should be like an animal function... he should act automatically.

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.