Poetic Quotes

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

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

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

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.

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.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

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.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

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.

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