Poetic Quotes

Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.

To me, the most poetic and intelligent way to bring up a subject is by showing very simply who you are and what you believe in.

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.

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

I don't think my lyrics go so well when I try to sound poetic. Some people do that really well. If I did that I'd feel like it wouldn't be genuine.

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!

Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?

I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a new poem or essay or book I'm excited about, I bring it in.

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.

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

I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.

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

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

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

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

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 poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

The poetic image exists apart from causality.

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

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'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.

Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.

Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I think - finding new ways of being poetic.

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.

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

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.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia.

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

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

Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that they are altered and have had an experience that belonged to them?

We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.

Tonight love and hate met in St. Louis. And love outnumbered the hate, in poetic thousands. Hate left. But love stayed. + Together, we sang.

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

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

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.

Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.