Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It's very rare to find scripts that are poetic and very romantic. — Harshvardhan Kapoor Copy Share Image
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams,… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting… — George Howe Colt Copy Share Image
The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere… — Charles Baudelaire 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
“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
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
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
“So what is this love that comes with being married?" ... "Being fond of somebody? Being nice? Wanting them not to go… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I liked Jim Morrison a lot as a person. He was this very poetic character, and death was always on his mind.… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
“There was a strange exciting smell in the air - the smell of wine, cigar smoke, and perfume, mingled with the scent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning… — Salomon Bochner Copy Share Image
Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit.… — Claudia Shear Copy Share Image
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question… — Eugenio Montale 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
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
Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
“Living in the land of, "What if…?" leads to emotional paralysis. It sets the stage for doom and gloom thinking. It prevents… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet.… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure -… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Live a life abundant in love and rich in spirit, these are the seeds of a fulfilling existence. Be the safe harbor… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally.… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“Failure is nothing more than a prelude to success—and a poetic one at that.” — Michael Parrish DuDell Copy Share Image
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“What can I say? I'm taken; I love how enthralled she remains by this festival of living.” — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image