1.
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Dennis Gabor
2.
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.
Wallace Stevens
3.
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.
John Gierach
5.
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
Federico Garcia Lorca
7.
I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.
Linton Kwesi Johnson
8.
My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
Mick Jagger
9.
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
Marguerite Young
10.
I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.
Mark Gonzales
11.
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Thomas Gray
12.
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
John Cage
13.
It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality.
Mark Gonzales
14.
Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
Aime Cesaire
15.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Jean Cocteau
16.
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.
Salvatore Quasimodo
17.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
19.
Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk.
Osamu Dazai
20.
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.
Merzbow
21.
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.
Paul Lockhart
22.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert
23.
I think anyone who follows me knows how I react. It's not always poetic and perfect but neither am I.
Chrissy Teigen
25.
And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.
Frank O'Hara
26.
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.
Jacques Derrida
29.
The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.
Victor Hugo
30.
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
Harold Bloom
31.
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
Stephane Mallarme
33.
One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.
Werner Herzog
34.
we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.
Gene Stratton-Porter
35.
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.
Kate Beckinsale
36.
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.
Giambattista Vico
37.
The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.
Thomas Bernhard
38.
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.
Octavio Paz
39.
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.
Jeff Tweedy
40.
The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.
Phil Cousineau
41.
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
42.
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
Muhammad Iqbal
43.
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
46.
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
W. H. Auden
47.
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
48.
Happiness lends poetic charms to woman,
and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
Honore de Balzac
49.
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
Bob Dylan
50.
One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
Dan Savage