the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.
A true poet is more than just a man who can write a poem with a pen. A true poet writes poetry with his very life. A true poet doesn't use poetic devices to con the heart of a woman but uses the beauty of all that is poetic to serve, cherish, and express love to the heart of a woman. Just as a true warrior is not a conqueror of femininity but a protector of femininity, a true poet is not just a wooer of a woman's heart but one who knows how to nurture and plant love in a woman's heart. Simply put, a true poet is a man who knows how to be intimate with a lover - first and foremost with Christ.
Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.
My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
I try to use a poetic language more than talk about my feelings, but it is married to the music.
Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.
America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.
A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.
we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.
At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.
The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.
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