Top 708 Poetic Quotes & Sayings

The poetic side of me is Scottish.

There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed had some world-class professors myself when I went through the curriculum, I rarely saw such gnosic or concretist/poetic passion among them. I am not speaking of broad histrionics or melodramatic delivery, but rather a moral investment of concern, of loving delight and pathos in exposing one's consciousness to the full horrific and magnificent implications of the materials.

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.

All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.

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.

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

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

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.

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

Romanian is a very beautiful, sensual, poetic language.

I love Tennessee Williams; as a playwright, he's so poetic.

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

God is the poetic genius in each of us.

1985 - That was my time in New York, and I have such poetic, fond memories.

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

Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

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

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

For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free.

Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Dancing is the body made poetic.

On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.

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 ... Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

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

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.

I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with perhaps more poets and more poetry readers than any city in the world.

Bollywood songs are losing their poetic value.

I'm thinking about the idea of poetic license. People say that about certain writers: "Oh, the grammar sucks, but it's just the poetic license." We accept it as being an art form of sorts: the incorrect rearrangement of meaningful things. Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary. We're just making sounds out of our mouths if we don't both accept that what I'm saying has very significant meanings, and I'm accurately targeting what vocabulary I use and how I arrange each word.

It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from facts to generalisation, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved.

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

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

The poetic image exists apart from causality.

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

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

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

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

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

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

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

The freedom of poetic license.

The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.

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

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.

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

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

There is no art without a poetic aim.

Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start oriented toward expression, and terminates in a word proffered, it wants to speak; whereas mystical because it emanates from the deepest longing of the spirit bent on knowing, tends of itself toward silence and internal fruition. Poetic experience is busy with the created world and the enigmatic and innumerable relations of existents with one another, not with the Principle of Being.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience.