Poetic Quotes

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.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, True, Keeping

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

Humor, Genius, Perfection

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Hypatia

Great, Pain, Mind

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.
Thomas Aquinas

Philosophy, Big, Wonder

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Milan Kundera

Love, Woman, Her

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz

Nature, Forget, Words

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

Mind, Pure, Poetical

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

Faith, Moment, Willing

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
Mick Jagger

Secrets, Believable

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.
Steven Spielberg

Took, List, Historical

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.
Charles Baudelaire

Life, Rich, Though

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

Moral, Force, Poet

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
Charles Baudelaire

Poetry, Fact, She

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

Great, Heart, Unique

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?
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Poetry, Third, Rhetorical

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

Science, Idea, Scientific

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
Margaret Fuller

History, Experience, Character

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

Interest, Poet, Artistry

Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?
Diablo Cody

Invisible, Feels, Suddenly

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
Stephen Sondheim

Nature, Mean, Meaning

Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever.
Ellie Goulding

Love, Best, Moment

The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
Daisaku Ikeda

Humanity, Person, Control

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
Manuel Puig

Work, Intuition, Complement

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

Different, Effect, Capacity

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Pablo Casals

Music, Beautiful, Heart

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Ezra Pound

Trust, Training, Gentleman

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
Damien Hirst

Worry, Makes, While

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.
Lytton Strachey

Mind, Almost, Value

I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time.
Alicia Keys

Time, Same, Personal

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

Far, Greater, Infinity

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