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  • Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

    Country   Art   Real  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.295
  • A true poet is more than just a man who can write a poem with a pen. A true poet writes poetry with his very life. A true poet doesn't use poetic devices to con the heart of a woman but uses the beauty of all that is poetic to serve, cherish, and express love to the heart of a woman. Just as a true warrior is not a conqueror of femininity but a protector of femininity, a true poet is not just a wooer of a woman's heart but one who knows how to nurture and plant love in a woman's heart. Simply put, a true poet is a man who knows how to be intimate with a lover - first and foremost with Christ.

    Writing   Heart   Warrior  
  • Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind

    Choices   Mind   Unions  
    Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”
  • A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

    1958 'Un ruban de reves' in L'Express, 5 Jun. Reprinted in English in International Film Annual, no.2.
  • The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

  • Almost everything that's happened in my poetry is what you might call organic. I don't do much preconceiving. The only consistent plan I've ever had is to try to break my patterns, my habits, my kneejerk tendencies in writing. If I start to sound too much like the Ron Padgett that I've read before, I stop myself. I don't want to get locked perpetually in a mode or a level of diction or a stylistic vein - what is called a poetic voice.

    Writing   Trying   Poetic  
    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • There is no art without a poetic aim.

    Art   Poetic   Aim  
  • There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.

    Rain   Swans   Fog  
  • 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.

    Mean   Men   Mind  
  • I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

    Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

    Writing   Men   Dragons  
    "Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56". Book edited by James Beasley Simpson, 1957.
  • Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?" "Are you calling me stupid?" "Yes, but in a more poetic way!" "Well, here's a poem for you. Get lost!

    Girl   Stupid   Romance  
    Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Voyage: Tiger's Curse: Book Three”, p.69, Hachette UK
  • Generous in spirit, richly poetic, and packed with memorable characters.

  • In everything I write, I seek out something which I term, 'the music'. This is an energy centre which I cannot define and which lies beyond the realm of obvious poetic technique.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.

    Real   Writing   Artist  
    Source: www.spin.com
  • To me, the most poetic and intelligent way to bring up a subject is by showing very simply who you are and what you believe in.

    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

    Nature   Men   Flames  
    Friedrich Schiller, Helga Zepp-LaRouche (2015). “Friedrich Schiller Poet of Freedom Volume III”, p.270, Executive Intelligence Review
  • Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.33
  • 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.

    Mind   Poetic   Faculty  
    Giambattista Vico (1961). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”
  • There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

    Pain   Poetry   Poetic  
    'The Task' (1785) bk. 2 'The Timepiece' l. 285
  • Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.

  • To most magicians, cards themselves are marvels...For one thing, they feel special in your hand. Touching them, holding them, shuffling - the whole process is almost poetic. If you're in a room full of magicians and someone just mentions the word cards, within seconds, everyone is digging into their pockets and pulling out a deck of cards. It's one of the most amazing feelings ever.

  • Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as well as invariant, may be involved in the expression of the content.", "Analysis of the Poetic Text.

    Art   Expression   Poetry  
  • Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.794, Library of America
  • You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

    Soul   Ordinary   Looks  
    "The Boor" by Anton Chekhov, sc. viii, 1888.
  • Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund.

  • George Orwells 1984 frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: its not a celebration of poetic language. Its decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what 1984 shows is that language can be a dirty trick.

    Dirty   Book   Political  
  • Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

    "The Name and Nature of Poetry". The Leslie Stephen Lecture, Cambridge University, May 09, 1933.
  • We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.

    Poetry   Littles   Poetic  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.270, Delphi Classics
  • Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and poetic and it's dialogue, chances are that's a Thomas Harris quote of some kind that's kind of been repurposed or reinterpreted or re-imagined somehow. That's where a lot of that poetry comes from.

    Book   Dragons   Red  
    Source: www.avclub.com
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