Poetical Quotes

55 quotes by 43 authors

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
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. — Jean Cocteau
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
He who travels much has this advantage over others â€“ that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they… — Giacomo Leopardi
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
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. — Wilfred Owen
No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression. — James Connolly
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
Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me. — Isaac Rosenberg

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