Poetic Quotes

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

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.