I try to use a poetic language more than talk about my feelings, but it is married to the music. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“As if my very soul wavers on the precipice and I must find my wings before the fall.” — Eleanor Cooper Copy Share Image
I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties. — Fernando Pessoa 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
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
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
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
It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet… — Arca Copy Share Image
“If I could show you how my heart is flowing with gratitude and love, I'd send you pictures, I swear.” — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
Tonight love and hate met in St. Louis. And love outnumbered the hate, in poetic thousands. Hate left. But love stayed. +… — Lady Gaga 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
[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Our house is quiet, small and plain, and yet its rooms run far and wide. A hundred pencils, swift as rain, writing… — Nancy Willard Copy Share Image
Why should you be bogged down with my titles and how I thought about it and my poetic reasoning? No, that's not… — Leonardo Drew Copy Share Image
“If not for the rats you could crawl beneath a bush. A bush. A bench. The alliterative universe. Rats too can pass… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“I'd like to hear five recordings of Louis Armstrong playing and singing "What Did I Do to Be so Black and Blue"-all… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Gargoyles sat on the battlements- lean they were and the same hideous damp grey as the stone. They looked at her with… — Meredith Ann Pierce Copy Share Image
“His stories were not always new, but there was in the telling of them a special kind of magic. His voice could… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“and I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A true poet is more than just a man who can write a poem with a pen. A true poet writes poetry… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“I knew that people said love should be unconditional, given like a dog gives to its master, but what Being could give… — Candice Raquel Lee Copy Share Image
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. — Manuel Puig 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
“there's something wrong with my ears I can't shut them like I can shut my eyes” — Henry Hoke Copy Share Image
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
“love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals. — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image