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Poetic Quotes by Roman Jakobson
- 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…
- A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
More Poetic Quotes
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Always be a poet, even in prose. — Charles Baudelaire
- There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. — Charles Baudelaire
- Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. — Charles Baudelaire
- If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. — Charles Baudelaire
- France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom… — Charles Baudelaire
- The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere… — Charles Baudelaire
- A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in… — Kate Beckinsale