Best 312 quotes in «poetic quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

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

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

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

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'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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

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

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

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.

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

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

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

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 freedom of poetic license.