Definition of Poetic

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Definition of Poetic
	Poetic Alt. of Poetical Related Definitions: Alt, Of, Poetical

Poetic Quotations

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

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.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
Mick Jagger

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

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

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

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

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

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

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
George Will

Poetic Translations

poetic in German is dichterisch

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