Poetic Quotes

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

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

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

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.

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

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

There is no art without a poetic aim.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Black is not sad... Black is poetic.

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.

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

I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

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

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

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

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