Poetic Quotes

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.

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

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

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

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

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

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.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

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

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

I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time.

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

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

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

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.