Quotes about Poetic

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. Votes: 3

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. Votes: 3

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. Votes: 3

Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make. Votes: 3

Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow. Votes: 3

Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play. Votes: 3

Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.. Votes: 3

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains. Votes: 3

...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world. Votes: 3

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence. Votes: 3

All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it. Votes: 3

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away. Poetic Verse by Votes: 3

For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground. Votes: 3

Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs. Votes: 3

In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension. Votes: 3

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Poetry is the language of the soul;Poetic Prose, the language of my heart.Each line must flow as in a song,and strike a chord that rings forever.To me, words are music! Votes: 3

Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as well as invariant, may be involved in the expression of the content.", "Analysis of the Poetic Text. Votes: 3

I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even. Votes: 3

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. Votes: 2

Always be a poet, even in prose. Votes: 2

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Votes: 2

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. Votes: 2

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. Votes: 2

To have great poets, there must be great audiences. Votes: 2

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. Votes: 2

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Votes: 2

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. Votes: 2

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. Votes: 2

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. Votes: 2

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. Votes: 2

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. Votes: 2

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. Votes: 2

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. Votes: 2

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning. Votes: 2

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Votes: 2

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. Votes: 2

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Votes: 2

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. Votes: 2

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. Votes: 2

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. Votes: 2

I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand of his Maker was poetic in both mind and body, but the gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. Votes: 2

My secrets must be poetic to be believable. Votes: 1

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances. Votes: 1

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. Votes: 1

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. Votes: 1

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. Votes: 1

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Votes: 1

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. Votes: 1

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. Votes: 1

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. Votes: 1

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall. Votes: 1

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son. Votes: 1

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture. Votes: 1

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus. Votes: 1

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. Votes: 1

In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And that's why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger. Votes: 1

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people. Votes: 1

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. Votes: 1

The freedom of poetic license. Votes: 0

Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams. Votes: 0

Dancing is the body made poetic. Votes: 0

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic. Votes: 0

The poetic image exists apart from causality. Votes: 0

The poetic side of me is Scottish. Votes: 0

Black is not sad... Black is poetic. Votes: 0

All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation. Votes: 0

No non-poetic account of reality can be complete. Votes: 0

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream. Votes: 0

There is no art without a poetic aim. Votes: 0

God is the poetic genius in each of us. Votes: 0

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural. Votes: 0

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths. Votes: 0

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. Votes: 0

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice. Votes: 0

One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy. Votes: 0

Generous in spirit, richly poetic, and packed with memorable characters. Votes: 0

A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. Votes: 0

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license. Votes: 0

He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license. Votes: 0

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know. Votes: 0

The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences. Votes: 0

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity. Votes: 0

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux. Votes: 0

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American. Votes: 0

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. Votes: 0

I've always tried to be kind of poetic in my lyrical approach. Votes: 0

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith." Votes: 0

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Votes: 0

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony. Votes: 0

Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history. Votes: 0

the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse. Votes: 0

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste, Votes: 0

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. Votes: 0

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste. Votes: 0

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.. Votes: 0

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties. Votes: 0

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche Votes: 0

Few things sound so beautiful as the poetic accent of a Welsh woman. Votes: 0

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world. Votes: 0

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. Votes: 0

I love Tennessee Williams pieces; they are so poetic and I love period pieces. Votes: 0

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste. Votes: 0

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse. Votes: 0

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. Votes: 0

Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile. Votes: 0

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. Votes: 0

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all. Votes: 0

The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning. Votes: 0

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction. Votes: 0

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. Votes: 0

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. Votes: 0

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. Votes: 0

It really is the most poetic thing i know about physics: you are all stardust. Votes: 0

One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies. Votes: 0

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? Votes: 0

It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality. Votes: 0

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative. Votes: 0

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime. Votes: 0

Your dreams are a poetic reflection of your soul's wishes. Be courageous enough to follow them. Votes: 0

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor. Votes: 0

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy Votes: 0

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge. Votes: 0

At times like these being a poetic bitch is all I have to hold on to. Votes: 0

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. Votes: 0

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. Votes: 0

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. Votes: 0

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. Votes: 0

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook! Votes: 0

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. Votes: 0

I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry. Votes: 0

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. Votes: 0

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. Votes: 0

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. Votes: 0

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience. Votes: 0

The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it. Votes: 0

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals. Votes: 0

For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable. Votes: 0

I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic. Votes: 0

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful. Votes: 0

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem. Votes: 0

I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened. Votes: 0

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice. Votes: 0

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement. Votes: 0

All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words. Votes: 0

I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references. Votes: 0

There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent. Votes: 0

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. Votes: 0

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten. Votes: 0

First and foremost, I'm an oral storyteller - I'll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time. Votes: 0

The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state. Votes: 0

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. Votes: 0

Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed. Votes: 0

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is. Votes: 0

Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl. Votes: 0

I wanted the bike to be able to go over all kinds of terrains and especially infinite and poetic territories, Votes: 0

A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring. Votes: 0

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art. Votes: 0

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead. Votes: 0

I think anyone who follows me knows how I react. It's not always poetic and perfect but neither am I. Votes: 0

The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything. Votes: 0

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too. Votes: 0

Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk. Votes: 0

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image. Votes: 0

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind Votes: 0

Then what's a synonym for woman?Entrails.You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?Milk. Votes: 0

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. Votes: 0

I've written some poetry, but... songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing. Votes: 0

Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be? Votes: 0

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe. Votes: 0

The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements. Votes: 0

Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear. Votes: 0

Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere. Votes: 0

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't. Votes: 0

For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference. Votes: 0

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic. Votes: 0

Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere? Votes: 0

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. Votes: 0

A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic. Votes: 0

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. Votes: 0

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. Votes: 0

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. Votes: 0

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love. Votes: 0

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. Votes: 0

Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final. Votes: 0

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854) Votes: 0

All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness. Votes: 0

...A strange art "“ music "“ the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra. Votes: 0

How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic moment or romantic bone in O-Dog's body. Votes: 0

That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane Votes: 0

The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star. Votes: 0

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. Votes: 0

They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own. Votes: 0

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition. Votes: 0

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be. Votes: 0

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. Votes: 0

You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile! Votes: 0

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility. Votes: 0

I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems. Votes: 0

We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis. Votes: 0

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license. Votes: 0

Tonight love and hate met in St. Louis. And love outnumbered the hate, in poetic thousands. Hate left. But love stayed. + Together, we sang. Votes: 0

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. Votes: 0

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme. Votes: 0

Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas? Votes: 0

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures. Votes: 0

In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is no elegance in this existence, nor grace in our lives. There is nothing poetic about feasting on blood that spills from torn flesh... Votes: 0

Your date will not be impressed by you throwing up on her brand-new shoes, as you spout poetic babblings that are meaningful only to you. Votes: 0

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft. Votes: 0

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive. Votes: 0

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart. Votes: 0

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it. Votes: 0

He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back. Votes: 0

A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas. Votes: 0

The poetic image ["¦] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes. Votes: 0

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate. Votes: 0

Short film: you can be poetic and you don't have to answer anything. You can make whatever you want. You have creative freedom with short film. Votes: 0

I am lover of words... I am wickedly drunk with the magic of words... the poetic nature whispers through and to my very heart and soul. Votes: 0

I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism. Votes: 0

I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication. Votes: 0

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. Votes: 0

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world. Votes: 0

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food Votes: 0

Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David? Votes: 0

Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection. Votes: 0

The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Now that's true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?" "Are you calling me stupid?" "Yes, but in a more poetic way!" "Well, here's a poem for you. Get lost! Votes: 0

Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter. Votes: 0

Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not. Votes: 0

My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way. Votes: 0

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last? Votes: 0

Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry. Votes: 0

I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified. Votes: 0

Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic. Votes: 0

But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking. Votes: 0

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being. Votes: 0

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it. Votes: 0

The spiritual mind is always metaphorical. Spiritual thinking is poetic thinking. It's always trying to put a very diaphanous experience into words, realizing all the while that words are inadequate. Votes: 0

Sadness is poetic. You're lucky to live sad moments. When you let yourself be sad, your body has antibodies. It has happiness that comes rushing in to meet the sadness. Votes: 0

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties. Votes: 0

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we. Votes: 0

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky. Votes: 0

There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call "poetic reality." That's something you see played out in film noir, where the technique establishes the mood. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations. Votes: 0

No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins. Votes: 0

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it. Votes: 0

I don't think my lyrics go so well when I try to sound poetic. Some people do that really well. If I did that I'd feel like it wouldn't be genuine. Votes: 0

One of my favorite French singers, Alain Bashung, was the expert at creating his own universe; no one knows what he's talking about, even he doesn't know because it's so poetic. Votes: 0

I think you can't do any action without in some way paying homage to John Woo. He's the guy who just invented that sort of next level of poetic nasty action. Votes: 0

I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests. Votes: 0

Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. Votes: 0

The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Each moment is a poetic expression of the undefined. As long as it remains undefined, it has all the beauty of the world and it steps inside to nurture your dreams. Votes: 0

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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). Votes: 0

Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying to create. Our job is to support their poetic direction. Votes: 0

I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new things and expand the limits of poetic form. Votes: 0

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!"). Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I think - finding new ways of being poetic. Votes: 0

I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic. Votes: 0

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material. Votes: 0

I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there. Votes: 0

What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries. Votes: 0

Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation. Votes: 0

The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is true that the sky was always beautiful but I don't remember marvelling at sunset or gazing at the dawn of a new day. Survival does not allow time for poetic reflection. Votes: 0

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep. Votes: 0

I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature. Votes: 0

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use. Votes: 0

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn't need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn't need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression. Votes: 0

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole. Votes: 0

Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that they are altered and have had an experience that belonged to them? Votes: 0

O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty. Votes: 0

I've always been intrigued by cutout silhouettes. They are so intriguing, so poetic-the shadow of a soul. They tell everything about a character and they are open to be filled with one's own imagination. Votes: 0

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake. Votes: 0

There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization. Votes: 0

There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization." Votes: 0

The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic language only interpret what the poetry has already interpreted. Votes: 0

Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently letting the words soak in until they understand them fully. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a new poem or essay or book I'm excited about, I bring it in. Votes: 0

Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817) Votes: 0

Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour. Votes: 0

The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion...the costume without the brain. Votes: 0

Men can be in love with literary figures, with poetic and mythological figures, but let them meet with Artemis, with Venus, with any of the goddesses of love, and then they start hurling moral judgments. Votes: 0

Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things. Votes: 0

French is the most beautiful,— he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other. Votes: 0

A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition. Votes: 0

Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If justice were poetic, Hubert Green would win it every year. Votes: 0