Poetic Quotes - Page 2

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

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.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

There is no art without a poetic aim.

One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.

There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.

I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

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

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

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

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

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

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

One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.