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

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
Marguerite Young

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
Laura Riding

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

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.
Mari Evans

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

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.
Marguerite Young

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.
Story Musgrave

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

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


If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.
Phyllis Battelle

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.
Roman Jakobson

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

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.
John Drinkwater

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
Pat Metheny

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.
Henry Beston

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

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.
Walter Isaacson

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

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

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