Poetic Quotes
411 quotes by 330 authors
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
— Charles Baudelaire
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
— Charles Baudelaire
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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
— Charles Baudelaire
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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous;…
— Charles Baudelaire
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A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
— Kate Beckinsale
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My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not…
— David Bohm
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as…
— Niels Bohr
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The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
— Joseph Brodsky
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God is the perfect poet.
— Robert Browning
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
— John Cage
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
— Pablo Casals
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
— Jean Cocteau
Who Wrote These Poetic Quotes
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