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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. — Karl Shapiro
There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed… — Kenny Smith
MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES WHICH ARE EQUAL… — Andrei Tarkovsky
A ghostly side note Soldier boy Miller played a Lucifer-like character in the final two episodes of Joan of Arcadia. Coincidence I do find it… — Wentworth Miller
The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness… — Gaston Bachelard
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must… — Gaston Bachelard
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it… — Honore de Balzac
Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one… — Gaston Bachelard
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space… — Margot Wallstrom
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson
All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness. — Walpola Rahula
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain… — Stephen Spender
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the… — Reginald Horace Blyth
Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If… — John Updike
I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world. — Ben Shahn
The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self.… — Deepak Chopra
The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing... formless intelligences but... it does not do so for the sake of art, but… — Pope Dionysius
Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime. — Joseph Cornell
Black is not sad... Black is poetic. — Ann Demeulemeester
When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out. In discovering… — Gregory Colbert
I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste, — Linton Kwesi Johnson
For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference. — Ann Demeulemeester
Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma,… — Brian Froud
Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook! — Leigh Hunt
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old,… — Goldwin Smith

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