Poetic Quotes

Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

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

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

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

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 think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

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

It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

Life ain't a concept. Music is not a concept. My titles are poetic abstractions of something that is with me all the time, not necessarily in music, but in life. Everybody's life.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

I think anyone who follows me knows how I react. It's not always poetic and perfect but neither am I.

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.