A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
“there's something wrong with my ears I can't shut them like I can shut my eyes” — Henry Hoke Copy Share Image
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse. — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
“Markings in dry clay disappear Only when the clay is soft again. Scars upon the self disappear Only when one becomes soft… — Deng Ming-Dao Copy Share Image
Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“Bracy sighed, "So this wasn't the heart...it was the head." "Bracy don't try to be poetic; it doesn't suit you.” — Nicole Sager Copy Share Image
The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I was a huge movie watcher, but I really loved 'Kenan & Kel,' 'Rugrats,' 'Doug,' & 'Catdog.' I was also into drama… — Raven Goodwin Copy Share Image
In everything I write, I seek out something which I term, 'the music'. This is an energy centre which I cannot define… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
“As the tired and battered Tango twelve backed slowly into its berth, the connection that a gnat had forged between his rig… — Daniel Thorman Copy Share Image
When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
English has always been my musical language. When I started writing songs when I was 13 or 14, I started writing in… — Olivia Merilahti Copy Share Image
I see a great lack of stories around. I bought six literary magazines and looked through them to see what people were… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been… — Harold Bloom 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
But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm drawing onto a computer directly, sometimes I'm drawing on paper , so I can't really talk about drafts. It's just… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier.… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
“{ Letter from Fawcett to the great Robert Ingersoll , 1894 } I do so wish, that, in all these big questions,… — Edgar Fawcett Copy Share Image
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“If Messenger would be to open his mouth right now, his voice would be a terrible wound.” — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license. — Michael Franks Copy Share Image
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
“The sky grows dark The Black over blue Yet the stars still dare To shine for you” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste, — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
“The same hand that can write a beautiful poem, can knock you out with one punch—that's Poetic Justice.” — Irish" Wayne Kelly Copy Share Image
