Poetic famous quotes

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
-- Aime Cesaire

#Silence #Poetic #Born

Black is not sad... Black is poetic.
-- Ann Demeulemeester

#Black #Poetic

The poetic side of me is Scottish.
-- Annie Lennox

#Scotland #Sides #Poetic

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
-- Azar Nafisi

#America #Vision #Poetic

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
-- Barbara Walters

#Thinking #Literature #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.
-- C. M. Mayo

#Mexican #Mentor #Poetic

Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
-- Camille Paglia

#Genius #Poetic

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

#People #Poetic

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.
-- Crispin Glover

#Lines #Eccentric #Poetic

One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
-- Dan Savage

#Men #Poetic #Ecstasy

There is no art without a poetic aim.
-- Edouard Vuillard

#Art #Poetic #Aim

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.
-- Elizabeth Kostova

#Tears #Poetic #Tropes

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

#Cutting #Language #Poetic

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Heaven #Battle #Poetic

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.
-- Gene Stratton-Porter

#Beautiful #Poetic #Very Beautiful

I will not listen to your verse on an empty stomach!" declared the Vicomte. "You have no soul," said Philippe sadly. "But I have a stomach, and it cries aloud for sustenance." "I weep for you," said Philip. "Why do I waste my poetic gems upon you?
-- Georgette Heyer

#Soul #Waste #Poetic

Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins

#Genius #Originality #Poetic

Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.
-- Giambattista Vico

#Mind #Poetic #Plunge

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
-- Goldwin Smith

#London #Poetic #Deeper

All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.
-- Hans Sachs

#Dream #Inspiration #Poetic

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
-- Harold Bloom

#Individuality #Needs #Poetic

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Mind #Poetic #Purity

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Women #Dresses #Poetic

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.
-- Howard Nemerov

#Poetic #Verses

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.
-- Jacques Derrida

#Poetic #Methodology #Discourse

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
-- James Broughton

#Poetic #Life Is #Cradle

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

#Lines #Poetic #Relaxed

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.
-- James Fenton

#Drama #Littles #Poetic

the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.
-- Jan Clausen

#Poetry #Poetic #Misuse

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
-- Jean Cocteau

#Misunderstood #Tragedy #Poetic

I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a post-literate situation, that human speech is a near-endless source of poetic forms, that there has always been more oral than written poetry, & that we can no longer pretend to a knowledge of poetry if we deny its oral dimension.
-- Jerome Rothenberg

#Speech #Dimensions #Poetic

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

#Novelists #Poetic

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
-- John Cage

#Poetry #Poetic #Realizing

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
-- John Crowe Ransom

#Waiting #Style #Poetic

Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point.
-- John Gierach

#Hands #Fishing #Poetic

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
-- Jose Saramago

#Novelists #Poetic #Poet

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
-- Joseph Brodsky

#Infinity #Poetic #Creeds

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
-- Joseph Joubert

#Poetry #Poetic

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?
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#Philosophical #Poetic #Rhetorical

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#Ideas #Poetic #Nonsensical

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
-- Kate Beckinsale

#Book #Way #Poetic

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.
-- Kenneth Koch

#New York #Poetic #Poet

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.
-- Laura Riding

#Musical #Poetic #Fit

It really is the most poetic thing i know about physics: you are all stardust.
-- Lawrence M. Krauss

#Poetic #Physics #Stardust

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste,
-- Linton Kwesi Johnson

#Validation #Taste #Poetic

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Jewels #Poetic #Poet

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.
-- Lytton Strachey

#Poetic #Psychologist #Obvious

The freedom of poetic license.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Poetry #Poetic

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
-- Marguerite Young

#Philosophy #Poetic #Realism

Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.
-- Matthea Harvey

#Writing #Poetic #Excited

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.
-- Max Barry

#Done #Language #Poetic

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

#Writing #Poetic

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.
-- Michel Gondry

#Want #Poetic #Surrealist

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
-- Mick Jagger

#Keeping Secrets #Secret #Poetic

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

#Writing #Poetic

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

#Poetic #Poet #Interest

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
-- Muriel Rukeyser

#Poetry #Poetic #Breathe

The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.
-- Northrop Frye

#Poetic

There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.
-- Octavio Paz

#Two #Sometimes #Poetic

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

#Milk #Poetic #Wells

Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?
-- Paolo Bacigalupi

#Poetic #Creation #Something New

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
-- Pat Metheny

#Music #Jazz #Poetic

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.
-- Paul Lockhart

#Psychedelic #Poetic #Mathematics

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

#Believe #Heart #Poetic

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.
-- Richard Dawkins

#Imagination #Religion #Poetic

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.
-- Robert Graves

#Dream #Facts #Poetic

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
-- Salvatore Quasimodo

#Spiritual #Earth #Poetic

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.
-- Salvatore Quasimodo

#Movement #Firsts #Poetic

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#Statistics #Poetic #Moments

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.
-- Scarlett Thomas

#Poetic #Mathematical #Homeopathy

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#Silence #Poetic #Flattering

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

#Hands #Poetic #Poet

Few things sound so beautiful as the poetic accent of a Welsh woman.
-- Steve Fowler

#Beautiful #Sound #Poetic

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

#Links #Architecture #Poetic

The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.
-- Thomas Bernhard

#Study #Sickness #Poetic

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
-- Thomas Gray

#Poetry #Poetic #Breathe

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
-- Thornton Wilder

#Love #Islands #Poetic

What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is like something else is one of the earliest markers of the poetic spirit, the nascent poet.
-- Tony Hoagland

#Spirit #Poetic #Metaphor

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
-- Umberto Eco

#Reading #Different #Poetic

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

#Lying #Elements #Poetic

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Writing #Imagination #Poetic

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
-- W. H. Auden

#Poetic #Poet #Makers

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
-- W. H. Auden

#Responsibility #Aristocracy #Poetic

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
-- Wallace Stevens

#Political #Poetic #Economic

One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.
-- Werner Herzog

#Cinema #Poetic #Made

They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.
-- William Cowper

#Judging #Birth #Poetic

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#History #Poetry #Poetic

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.
-- Alex Lemon

#Creative #Poetic #Prose

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.
-- Arca

#Trying #Poetic #Grey Areas

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)
-- Charles Negre

#Photography #Art #Poetic

A dance feels finished to me when I suddenly see this moment in the movement that feels like closure and makes me want to cry. And then I'll realize, "Oh, that's the end. This whole thing is working because it all led up to this moment." It pulls all this together and it sends the correct message in a very poetic way.
-- Dana Tai Soon Burgess

#Together #Poetic #Realizing

I've always tried to be kind of poetic in my lyrical approach.
-- Erik Rutan

#Be Kind #Poetic #Lyrical

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.
-- Frank O'Hara

#Worry #Lineage #Poetic

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

#Connections #Poetic #States

I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something that's unsayable about one's incarcerated existence, and it's fun to come up with words to represent that condition, and it's fun to pull the tail of absurdity and rile it up, where you giggle at what you do or you get enthralled and in the short story.
-- Hampton Fancher

#Fun #Poetic #Existence

To apply poetic license or to apply incorrect arrangements requires the idea or the understanding of correct arrangements - becoming an expert of the conventions of correct arrangements in order to misplace them. In other words, misplacing things with the understanding, or even the mastery, of normalcy is actually quite poetic. These are rule-based operations.
-- Jimenez Lai

#Understanding #Poetic

I think of Gord Downie voice as Whitman-esque. He has a poetic voice that contains multitudes, both the suppleness of the instrument of his voice, and just the lyrical boundaries that he pushes, which are really always thrilling to me.
-- John K. Samson

#Thinking #Poetic #Boundaries

I'm sort of annoyed that some very basic things about poetic forms were not conveyed to me in the various poetry courses I took over the years.
-- Juliana Spahr

#Years #Annoyed #Poetic

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.
-- Merzbow

#Titles #Poetic #Music Is

I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.
-- Michelle Stuart

#Philosophical #Poetic #Angry