Poetical Quotes
55 quotes by 43 authors
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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
— Jean Cocteau
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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the…
— Jane Austen
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Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology…
— Hugh Miller
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Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in…
— Ernst Haeckel
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Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like…
— Hugh Miller
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Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind…
— Michael Faraday
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Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.
— George Perkins Marsh
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You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies & remote figures respecting the…
— Michael Faraday
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With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine…
— John Henry Newman
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Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of…
— William Hazlitt
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He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they…
— Giacomo Leopardi
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And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are…
— Plato
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I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
— Wilfred Owen
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No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.
— James Connolly
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When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover…
— Victor Cousin
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Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
— Isaac Rosenberg
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