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I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet. — Kenneth Koch
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread… — Joseph Addison
The freedom of poetic license. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions… — Aberjhani
The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my… — Herman Melville
Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right… — Eliphas Levi
Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those… — Heather McHugh
Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed. — Orhan Pamuk
Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems… — Kendrick Lamar
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion… — Henry David Thoreau
The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur. -People who think… — Kenny Smith
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something… — Annabelle Selldorf
Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be. — Steven Holl
No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying… — Chuck Eddy
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules… — Henry David Thoreau
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous. — Richard Dawkins
The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it,… — Henry Beston
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice. — Timothy Keller
Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard… — Wystan Hugh Auden
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley,… — George Santayana
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with… — Wallace Stevens
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire
Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term,… — William Safire
Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may… — Jean Genet

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