Poetic Quotes - Page 3

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Black is not sad... Black is poetic.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is like something else is one of the earliest markers of the poetic spirit, the nascent poet.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

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

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.

The freedom of poetic license.

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust.

I'm sort of annoyed that some very basic things about poetic forms were not conveyed to me in the various poetry courses I took over the years.

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

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.