Best Poetic Wisdom

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A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. — James Broughton
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. — Jerzy Kosinski
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license. — Christopher Plummer
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. — Eugenio Montale
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. — John Crowe Ransom
I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must… — Mari Evans
I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience. — Marguerite Young
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. — Wislawa Szymborska
There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances. — Evelyn Waugh
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. — Marguerite Young
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic… — Lytton Strachey
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or… — Harold Bloom
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire… — Salvatore Quasimodo
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to… — Salvatore Quasimodo
Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a… — Maximilian Schell
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into… — John Drinkwater
I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book… — Marguerite Young
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and… — Salvatore Quasimodo
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it. — Howard Nemerov
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. — Stephane Mallarme
Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would… — Mark Helprin
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet. — Oliver Goldsmith
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. — Salvatore Quasimodo
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great… — Lytton Strachey
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. — James Broughton

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