Poetic License Quotes

Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.

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

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

The freedom of poetic license.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.

With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that events been conflated and that liberties have been taken, characters ditto, dates rearranged. But people don't seem to understand that movies are fictions, they are dramatizations, at least historical movies, and we should accord the moviemakers some of the same understanding and latitude. When you go to a movie you know it's a dramatization and not history.

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

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.