Best Poetic Quotes
411 Poetic quotes by 315 unique authors
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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are…
— Thomas Aquinas
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I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take…
— Maya Angelou
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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence, each beckoned and…
— Unknown Author
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Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that…
— Eric Maisel
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Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there…
— Henry Beston
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Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in…
— Ernst Haeckel
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Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure…
— Tom Robbins
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The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up…
— Gabor Mate
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He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.
— Unknown Author
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For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough…
— Carl Ludwig
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Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a…
— D. M. Thomas
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Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning in that it…
— Salomon Bochner
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Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we…
— Maya Angelou
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The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical…
— Sigmund Freud
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He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.
— Carolyn Kizer
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He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.
— Milton Berle
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He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is possessed by two…
— Unknown Author
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There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
— George Will
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Tonight love and hate met in St. Louis. And love outnumbered the hate, in poetic thousands. Hate left. But love stayed. + Together, we sang.
— Lady Gaga
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Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I've tried…
— Guy Clark
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But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in…
— Annie Proulx
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I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema…
— Jean Rouch
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I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical and…
— Gregory Crewdson
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