Best 312 quotes in «poetic quotes» category

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly described his work, but also for embodying the contradictions within it.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

Generous in spirit, richly poetic, and packed with memorable characters.

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.

God is the perfect poet.

God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a very passive, very loving approach, can.

Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.

He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

I don't think you can strategize to be poetic and neither can you strategize to be funny. It is not a tool, it is itself - it comes from the moment, from the character, from the background, from the streets.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.

I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch.

I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which mostly miss the living spirit behind the forms).

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

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

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.

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.

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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