If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. Fran Lebowitz American Journalist More Fran Lebowitz Quotes 1
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. Jerzy Kosinski Polish Novelist More Jerzy Kosinski Quotes 0
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. Hypatia Greek Philosopher More Hypatia Quotes 0
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. Milan Kundera Czechoslovakian Writer More Milan Kundera Quotes 0
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American Poet More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes 0
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Federico Garcia Lorca Spanish Poet More Federico Garcia Lorca Quotes 0
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. Pat Metheny American Musician More Pat Metheny Quotes 0
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. Eugenio Montale Italian Poet More Eugenio Montale Quotes 0
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. Ezra Pound American Poet More Ezra Pound Quotes 0
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. Story Musgrave American Astronaut More Story Musgrave Quotes 0
Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment. Maximilian Schell Swiss Actor More Maximilian Schell Quotes 0
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel More Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes 0
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel More Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes 0
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. Henry David Thoreau American Author More Henry David Thoreau Quotes 0
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. Karl Shapiro American Poet More Karl Shapiro Quotes 0
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice. George Will Journalist More George Will Quotes 0
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. Goldwin Smith Canadian Historian More Goldwin Smith Quotes 0
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall. Stephen Sondheim American Composer More Stephen Sondheim Quotes 0
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind. Lytton Strachey English Critic More Lytton Strachey Quotes 0
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. Wislawa Szymborska Polish Poet More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes 0
In 38 brief chapters, this poetic, postmodern novel experiments with a variety of styles: haiku, song lyrics, question-and-answer dialogue and split-screen scenarios. With seeming yet deliberate randomness, Perkins writes an orderly, innovative and risk-taking book in which nothing happens and everything happens. Barbara Barstow More Barbara Barstow Quotes 0
I found the absolute thrill of translating ancient poetic text into totally visceral, tangible and even relevant, immediate and urgent language... I was thrilled by Shakespeare. It surprised me, my profound delight in deciphering Shakespeare and making it completely flesh-and-blood. Ben Kingsley More Ben Kingsley Quotes 0
I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. . Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Indian Spiritual leader More Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Quotes 0
Maybe it was poetic justice. We were finally able to get over the hurdle. Bill Cowher More Bill Cowher Quotes 0
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, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou. Charles Baudelaire French Poet More Charles Baudelaire Quotes 0