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55 Poetical quotes by 43 unique authors

A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset? — Oscar Wilde
That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science? — Ada Lovelace
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of… — Isaac D'Israeli
I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical… — Thomas Love Peacock
Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of… — Marquis de Custine
It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather. — George Eliot
It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who… — Mohammad Khatami
The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt,… — William Hazlitt
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. — Edgar Allan Poe
When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up… — Kurt Vonnegut
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The… — Tom Stoppard
I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips… — Edgar Allan Poe
In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all… — Natasha Trethewey

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