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
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. Walter Pater English Critic More Walter Pater Quotes 0
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. Salvatore Quasimodo Italian Author More Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes 0
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. Salvatore Quasimodo Italian Author More Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes 0
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture. Salvatore Quasimodo Italian Author More Salvatore Quasimodo 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
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't. Barbara Walters American Journalist More Barbara Walters Quotes 0
I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience. Marguerite Young American Author More Marguerite Young Quotes 0
I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. Marguerite Young American Author More Marguerite Young Quotes 0
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. Marguerite Young American Author More Marguerite Young Quotes 0
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. John C. Ransom More John C. Ransom Quotes 0
If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature. Phyllis Battelle American Journalist More Phyllis Battelle Quotes 0
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. Charles Baudelaire French Poet More Charles Baudelaire Quotes 0
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. Charles Baudelaire French Poet More Charles Baudelaire Quotes 0
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. Charles Baudelaire French Poet More Charles Baudelaire Quotes 0
Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. Aime Cesaire French Poet More Aime Cesaire Quotes 0
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. Thomas Aquinas Italian Theologian More Thomas Aquinas Quotes 0
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. Henry Beston American Writer More Henry Beston Quotes 0
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc. David Bohm American Scientist More David Bohm Quotes 0
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Samuel Taylor Coleridge English Poet More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes 0
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. Joseph Brodsky American Poet More Joseph Brodsky Quotes 0
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. James Broughton American Director More James Broughton Quotes 0
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology. Jacques Derrida French Philosopher More Jacques Derrida Quotes 0
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. John Drinkwater English Poet More John Drinkwater Quotes 0