“Poetic words are usually more stimulating than accurate. Taking them too seriously is a mistake.” — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?” — Sherley Mondesir-Prescott Copy Share Image
Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“She smiled up at him. 'The edge of dark. I love the way you say things here.' 'It's just talk to folks… — Ann H. Gabhart Copy Share Image
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Spanish is a poetic language, in particular the Spanish of Mexico which has a wonderful animistic attitude you might not see in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“With these words there came the rending scream of a shattered stirk and an angry troubling of the branches as the poor… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I've always been intrigued by cutout silhouettes. They are so intriguing, so poetic-the shadow of a soul. They tell everything about a… — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors,… — Noah Cicero Copy Share Image
When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things .… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Poetic justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise. Here… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged -… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence,… — James Emanuel Copy Share Image
Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“My dream was to be a scientist, but it turns out to be poetic scientific awakener.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“In the end it wasn't death or terror that shattered them. It was someone else's love. How poetic.” — Kelsey Sutton Copy Share Image
“I don’t know what I’ll do if I fall in love with him.” “If you fall, let him catch you.” — Renée Carlino Copy Share Image
Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“faces pressed against the pane, full of little, content with sawdust tears.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
