96 Poetic Quotes for You to Enjoy

Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men. H. P. Lovecraft

Freedom Cats Pride Men Beauty Cynical Coldness Philosophic Independent Unbroken Civilised Poetic Mentally Developed Individuality Qualities Self-Sufficiency Wonder Sensitive Pagan Dispassionate Reserved Dainty Enlightened

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

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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

Big Lover Philosopher Philosophers Philosophy Way Alike Fables Poetic Poets Myths Arises Bound Because His His Way Wonder Being Awe

When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once. Daniel Barenboim

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Federico Garcia Lorca

Battle Nothing More Poetic Terrible Cover Than Heavens Them Skyscrapers

An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes. H. P. Lovecraft

Bible Simple King Rich Analytical Saxon Though Composition Vocabulary Invaluable General Poetic Habit Excellent Writers Study Quaint Equal Forceful Cultivate Model James Rhythm Themes Production Hard English Even Imaginative

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license. Michael Franks

Liberal License Poetic Write Although Amount Apply

As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic. Richard Linklater

You Experience Emotions World Feeling Become Older Poetic Beautifully Get Any Just Want Ordinary Ordinary Things Less Barriers Things

A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. Victor Hugo

Soul Inseparable Poetic Noble Almost Talent Always Real

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

Nature Relation Finer Poetic Pursuits Instance True Know Least Bees Than Which Certain Wholly Keeping Suggest

By 12, my body had changed, although instead of blossoming into Cindy Mancini from 'Can't Buy Me Love,' I more closely resembled Chunk from 'The Goonies.' My inside world may have been filled with a poetic and vital feminine life force, but the outside world saw and told me otherwise. Ari Graynor

Life Love Buy Me World Changed Otherwise Cindy Saw Chunk Inside Vital More Poetic Outside Outside World Had Instead Force Although Feminine Been Blossoming Closely May Body Filled

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? Azar Nafisi

Vision Will Poetic Poetry Loses America Happen Based

Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles. Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Life Faith Great Justice World Sunshine Brilliant Sense Others Resources Guided Battlefield Battles Shakespeare Poetic Him Were His Sublime Times Infinite Violent Plays

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. Charles Baudelaire

Poet Diminished Moral Objective Poetic Pursued He Force His

I never really knew what to do with my hair to begin with. When I was fat, I had incredibly long, unkempt hair. And there was kind of a poetic justice to losing something I was hiding behind. Corey Stoll

Justice Losing Long Hair Incredibly Hiding Kind Something Poetic Never Had Knew Begin Behind Really Fat

I know that when you are experiencing failure, it's pretty damn painful. It is easy in retrospect to wax poetic about it. But in the moment, you don't think you will survive, let alone have the time to reflect on how valuable those lessons will be for you in the future. Daniel Lubetzky

Future Alone Time Failure You Valuable Will Reflect Think Damn Wax Those Easy Pretty About Poetic Know Retrospect How Survive Experiencing Painful Moment Lessons

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

Logical Language Mind Feelings State Intuitively Proper Only Poetic Generally Overall Terms Also Known Operation Mathematical Order Formal Etc Usage Requires Grasp Each Images Suggestion

I began as a fiction writer - I had written three novels in my 20s and 30s. But as my work has gravitated towards literary nonfiction, or lyric essay or poetic essay, whatever you want to call it, I'm constantly beating my head against the wall 'cause I'm teaching a genre that's no longer that exciting to me and that I'm no longer practicing. David Shields

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In the poetic tradition, the heart's affections are indeed holy, and if organizations are asking for people's hearts and minds, they are asking in a way for their holy and hidden affections at the same time. David Whyte

Time Heart People Minds Way Indeed Hidden Poetic Tradition Affections Hearts Same Same Time Asking Holy Organizations

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