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411 Poetic quotes by 315 unique authors

"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and that… — Frank Drake
So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that can be embedded… — Tony Hoagland
All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension… — Oskar Kokoschka
On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright… — Ann Demeulemeester
Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There… — Unknown Author
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind — Max Eastman
No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places… — Randolph Bourne
A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its… — Unknown Author
I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the canon,… — Michel Leiris
The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with… — Gaston Bachelard
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could… — Gaston Bachelard
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche — Gaston Bachelard
The poetic image exists apart from causality. — Gaston Bachelard
I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to… — Anne Sexton
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence. — Kenneth Rexroth
Emotionally, it was the hardest 33 days of my life, but it was worth it because the result is that this album is 100 percent… — Christina Perri
The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything. — Phil Cousineau
Your date will not be impressed by you throwing up on her brand-new shoes, as you spout poetic babblings that are meaningful only to you. — Gene Simmons
I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and… — Giambattista Vico
No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream.… — Robert Graves
Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed… — Robert Graves
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that… — Eugenio Montale
Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns... a solemn… — Charles Addams

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