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Last updated on November 28, 2024.
Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
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?
One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.
For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference.
There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
I want tragic and poetic forever! That's how I want to live every day.
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.
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.
The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.
Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry, which came down through oral tradition.
I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve.
I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.
- How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm... A poetic gladiator.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring.
Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.
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.
Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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.
When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
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.
I definitely had some heated but extremely productive chats with screenwriter Justin Monjo, but while it's my story, it's their movie, so I have to allow for compression and poetic license.
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.
...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.
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
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.
All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.
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.
Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works.
In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.
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.
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.
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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.
Back in the Seventies, we had a romantic, poetic vision of the future, like it was in the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey.' It felt as if everything was still ahead of us.
...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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.
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.
I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
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!
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.
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.
