Poetic Quotes
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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.
William Kennedy -
They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.
William Cowper
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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.
Campbell McGrath -
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.
Dean Wareham -
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.
Brett Dennen -
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.
David Starkey -
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.
Northrop Frye -
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.
William Cowper
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Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.
Scarlett Thomas -
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.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau -
There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
William Cowper -
There is no art without a poetic aim.
Edouard Vuillard -
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.
Casey Spooner -
God is the poetic genius in each of us.
William Blake
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Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy.
Thomas Sowell -
We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.
William James -
The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.
Mike Mills -
In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.
Ernst Haas -
I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.
Michael Franks -
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
Wislawa Szymborska
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A dance feels finished to me when I suddenly see this moment in the movement that feels like closure and makes me want to cry. And then I'll realize, "Oh, that's the end. This whole thing is working because it all led up to this moment." It pulls all this together and it sends the correct message in a very poetic way.
Dana Tai Soon Burgess -
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.
Carolyn Kizer -
I've always tried to be kind of poetic in my lyrical approach.
Erik Rutan -
If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)
Charles Negre