Poetic Quotes

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

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.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

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

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.

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.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

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.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

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

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.