Poetic Quotes

Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere? Diablo Cody
Herself Everywhere Poetic Invisible Feels How Judy Describing Suddenly
I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry, which came down through oral tradition. Donovan
Myself Poet Down Think Background Poetic Poetry Through Know Came Tradition Up Oral Influences Grew Which
I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future. Eavan Boland
Hope Future Conversation Fear Will Past Believe Out Rather Poetic Voice Poets Still Heard Begin Than Turn Turns Many Monologue
I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve. Edward Hirsch
Problems Solve Some Poetic Comfort Because Were Trying Human Just Found
Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry. Edward Hirsch
Honor Practice Creation Restore Poetic Both Poetry Rational Sacred True Sought Accompanies Aura Irrational Form Elements Necessary Speech
The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose. Edward Hirsch
Everyday Framing Way Immediately Poetic Poetry Prose Line Lines Verse Difference Measured Speech
The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux. Franz Wright
Me Poetic Prose Most Interests
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. Gaston Bachelard
Future Language Say Destinies Would Poetic Poetry Opens Newness Image Speech
1985 - That was my time in New York, and I have such poetic, fond memories. George C. Wolfe
Time Memories Fond Fond Memories My Time Poetic New York New York
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
Man Experience Humanity Fear Mood Religious Vanishes Poetic Gives Emotion Put Adventure Well Learn Vulgar Reverence Which Depth Away Night
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative. Howard Barker
Value Believe Way Poetic Discourse Speculative Speech
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse. James Fenton
Practice Other Range Kinds Poetic Hymn Reach Ballad Lines Verse Familiar Form Length English Whole Basic Four
At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. James Fenton
Somewhere Relaxed Poetic Most Around Line Manageable English Syllables
Back in the Seventies, we had a romantic, poetic vision of the future, like it was in the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey.' It felt as if everything was still ahead of us. Jean-Michel Jarre
Future Vision Space Back Everything Seventies Poetic Had Like Felt Still Odyssey Movie Romantic Us
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. Jerzy Kosinski
Life Own License Poetic Also His Which Novelist Specific
I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic. Jewel
Love Creative Amazing Too Tool Books Kids Out High Would About High Standard Outlet More Poetic Write Writers Children Fantastic Really Standard Teaching Creative Outlet Thing Imaginative
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. John Crowe Ransom
Waiting Style Tremble Exactly Critics Exactly The Same Poetic Poets Prose Were Same Grounds
Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction. Joseph Brodsky
Good Style Speed Poetic Hostage Prose Always Diction Precision Intensity
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. Joseph Brodsky
Poetic Sponsored Greater Than Infinity Any Which Far Notion Creed
I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression. Joyce Carol Oates
Quality Sometimes Care Twitter High Compose Poetic Most Self-Expression Sort Were Surprised Surreal Itself Lends Aphorism Tweets
When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers. Kangana Ranaut
Relationship You Woman Poetic Layers Should
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
Philosophical Poetic Poetry Rhetorical Which Then Third
Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way. Kate Beckinsale
Life Me You Experience Sense Books Way Find Life Experience Someone Poetic Make Documented Always Any Who Helped Things
Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know, who are relentlessly visual and even poetic. Kevin Young
Mine Randomness Those Relentlessly Visual Poetic Writers Share Feel Know Altar Same Who Painters Even Utility Belonging Need
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus. Kurt Sutter
Great Writing Focus Those Classics Guys Poetic Inspired Primary Like Became Literature Realists Really Exposed Old-Time
How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic moment or romantic bone in O-Dog's body. Larenz Tate
Love Society Bone Menace Poetic How Go Did Romantic To Love Body Moment
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