Poetic Quotes

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

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

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

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

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.

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

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.

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

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.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

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

I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.

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.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

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

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.

All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

The freedom of poetic license.

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?

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

I wanted the bike to be able to go over all kinds of terrains and especially infinite and poetic territories.

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

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.

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

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.

Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.

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

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.

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