Best 312 quotes in «poetic quotes» category

Always be a poet, even in prose.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

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

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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).

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.