Poetic Quotes

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

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.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

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.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.