Poetic Quotes
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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
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A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.
Rene Magritte
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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
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The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.
George Howe Colt
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DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to reality. Choose the one that's best for you. Escape into the world of imagination.
Eugene Ionesco
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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
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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
Wislawa Szymborska
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I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.
Mike Gordon
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The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.
Mike Mills
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All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.
Walpola Rahula
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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
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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Ezra Pound
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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.
Michel Gondry
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I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
Stephen Spender
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Spanish is a poetic language, in particular the Spanish of Mexico which has a wonderful animistic attitude you might not see in the Spanish of the peninsula. I think it has to do with the indigenous way of looking at nature.
Sandra Cisneros
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The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in his character, and in his discoveries,-a vivid imagination sketching out new tracts in regions unexplored, for the judgement to select those leading to the recesses of abstract truth.
Davies Gilbert
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Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.
Susanne Langer
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There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
George Will
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It's poetic almost. He starts of the year with that, and this game he starts it off by banking in a 3. You kind of knew it was going to be his night.
Bobby Frasor