Poetic Quotes
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Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new things and expand the limits of poetic form.
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What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.
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They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.
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God is the poetic genius in each of us.
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For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.
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Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.
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There is no art without a poetic aim.
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If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)
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I've always tried to be kind of poetic in my lyrical approach.
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In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.
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I don't think you can strategize to be poetic and neither can you strategize to be funny. It is not a tool, it is itself - it comes from the moment, from the character, from the background, from the streets.
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On the red carpet, I need to be protected. When I wear a Chanel dress, I feel like I've earned the right to be there. And Karl Lagerfeld is so poetic, such an intelligent man. I like the way he has the power to draw attention.
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My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that poetry, the telling images, the brevity. I want to hear it in my own work as well as in the poetry I read. However, I think I'm generally more forgiving of other poets than myself.
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The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.
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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.
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A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.
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I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.
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It is impossible not to react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic production. We have been at war for three years. One desperately feels the need for someone to speak some sort of truth, either poetic or factual.
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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.
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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.
