Poetic Quotes

Bollywood songs are losing their poetic value.

— Kumar Sanu

“There is no poetic art like praying.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“You are the door of the doorless rooms.”

— Emir Demirkiran

The poetic side of me is Scottish.

— Annie Lennox

“A body is too small to contain this feeling.”

— René Peña-Govea

The poetic image exists apart from causality.

— Gaston Bachelard

There is no art without a poetic aim.

— Edouard Vuillard

Dancing is the body made poetic.

— Ernst Bacon

“My poetic aspiration Is to become, A Jack of all styles And a master of pun.”

— Clive Blake

“What can I say? I'm taken; I love how enthralled she remains by the festival of living.”

— Mark Z. Danielewski

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

— James Fenton

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I live just south of the poetic,/where the glaciers stopped short, sloped down/to nothing”

— Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

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

— Milton Berle

I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.

— Michelle Stuart

All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.

— Hans Sachs

“Thus I did with Susan as with most other things in my earlier days, dipping her image into my mind and coloring…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to…

— Gaston Bachelard

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

— Matthew Arnold

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies…

— Elizabeth Bowen

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

— Barbara Walters

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with…

— Niels Bohr

Not even I, in my original Spanish, am necessarily obliged to make exact quotations. I can do that or not, I can…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From time to time, from the endless flow of our mental imagery, there emerges unexpectedly something that, vague though it may be,…

— Leo Lionni

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“As the tired and battered Tango twelve backed slowly into its berth, the connection that a gnat had forged between his rig…

— Daniel Thorman

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm…

— Rick Perlstein

I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself…

— Orhan Pamuk

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have a notebook that I take with me everywhere. I free-write in it when there are situations that I know I…

— Agent M

At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my…

— Anais Nin

Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft…

— Paul Robeson

Oh my, I've just discovered what science shows us about our humble but spectacular place in the universe, and I have to…

— Julia Sweeney

Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the…

— Jacques Maritain

“Sometimes I believe that love dies but hope springs eternal. Sometimes I believe that hope dies but love springs eternal. Sometimes I…

— Nora Ephron