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411 Poetic quotes by 315 unique authors

I cannot pursue my architecture without considering the minimization of energy consumption, simple and direct technologies, a respect for site, climate, place and culture. Together,… — Glenn Murcutt
Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently… — Roma Downey
I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a… — Courtney Love
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these… — Joseph Campbell
Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere. — Andrea Barrett
Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented… — Etel Adnan
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness… — Unknown Author
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the… — John Drinkwater
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. — Harold Bloom
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny
Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express… — Abraham Maslow
I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate… — Philip Larkin
It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender,… — Molly O'Neill
When Reason Breaks is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily Dickinson shines through the gloom… — Margarita Engle
The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star. — George Howe Colt
Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay. — Crispin Glover
Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning… — Paul Robeson
God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a very passive, very… — Rajneesh
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were… — Walter Isaacson
I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different… — Neil Peart
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. — Paul Verlaine
I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a… — Jerome Rothenberg
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. — Federico Garcia Lorca
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort… — Roman Jakobson

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