I need to look back on my poetic ventures, make sense of them as a whole, and move forward... and to experiment… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free. — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures. — Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is poetic and lyrical; words that spill forth like cool waters into the dusty dry rock bed of the Soul desiring… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
“Then the wind died down and the air grew warm and the flies awoke and started to drone, and they were a… — J.T. McGowan Copy Share Image
“One thing all the stories agreed on: King Robert was dead. The bells in the seven towers of the Great Sept of… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Why the connection with musicians? I think it's because in the end we're doing very similar things - we're telling stories, we're… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
When I started making music, we'd lost a lot of our great people. Rock was moving in a direction I didn't like.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Sometimes stars do fall to earth. It was true. They did and then became commonplace like the rest of the dirt on… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being… — William Gay Copy Share Image
Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I'm thinking about the idea of poetic license. People say that about certain writers: "Oh, the grammar sucks, but it's just the… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation,… — Linda Gregerson Copy Share Image
A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful. — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“I found it easier to stare out into the infinite blackness, away from the fire burning itself out in his eyes.” — Heather Heffner Copy Share Image
“The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference. — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say… — Francis Ponge Copy Share Image
They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
“I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
