Quotes and Sayings About Poetic
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Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
-- Aime Cesaire -
America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
-- Azar Nafisi -
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
-- Barbara Walters -
I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with his mentor, the Spanish surrealist Luis Buuel.
-- C. M. Mayo -
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
-- Camille Paglia -
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
-- Christopher Plummer -
Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.
-- Crispin Glover -
One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
-- Dan Savage -
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.
-- Elizabeth Kostova -
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
-- Eugenio Montale -
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
-- Federico Garcia Lorca -
we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.
-- Gene Stratton-Porter -
I will not listen to your verse on an empty stomach!" declared the Vicomte. "You have no soul," said Philippe sadly. "But I have a stomach, and it cries aloud for sustenance." "I weep for you," said Philip. "Why do I waste my poetic gems upon you?
-- Georgette Heyer -
Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.
-- Giambattista Vico -
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.
-- Goldwin Smith -
All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.
-- Hans Sachs -
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
-- Harold Bloom -
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
-- Honore de Balzac -
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.
-- Howard Nemerov -
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.
-- Jacques Derrida -
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
-- James Broughton -
At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.
-- James Fenton -
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.
-- James Fenton -
the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.
-- Jan Clausen -
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
-- Jean Cocteau
