Poetic Quotes

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

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

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk.

Life ain't a concept. Music is not a concept. My titles are poetic abstractions of something that is with me all the time, not necessarily in music, but in life. Everybody's life.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

I think anyone who follows me knows how I react. It's not always poetic and perfect but neither am I.

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

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

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.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

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

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

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

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

There is no art without a poetic aim.

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

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

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 study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Black is not sad... Black is poetic.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

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.

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

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