96 Poetic Quotes for You to Enjoy

Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and re-editing my previous work, staring dreamily off into space, pretending that I'm thinking profound, poetic thoughts when really I'm just thinking, 'Look at me being a writer! I'm so happy I'm a writer!' Liane Moriarty

Work Time Me Thoughts Happy Editing Space Word Too Much Pretending Sit Down Every Thinking Too Every Time Otherwise Too Much Time Poetic Previous Write Writer Count Look Goal Off Commit Just Being Much Really Waste Staring Profound Need

I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal. Lindsey Buckingham

Interpretation Think Lyrics More Poetic Open Gotten Literal Less Necessarily

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste. Linton Kwesi Johnson

Validation Poetic Never Sought Taste Ever British

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom. Linton Kwesi Johnson

Anger Defiance Poet Apprenticeship Back Our Those Tried Spirit Poetic Voice Days Also Idiom Began Early Resistance Early Days

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

Mind Value Inevitable Other Drama Dramatic Shakespeare Poetic Almost Reader Course His Dominated Literature Which Should Measure Standards English

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

First of all, Craig Lucas' work, any of it, for any actor, is such good material. It's so alive in such a poetic, yet human way. It's theatrical, but it lets you emotionally connect with the characters. Marin Hinkle

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. Matthew Arnold

Life Truth Criticism Beauty Laws Poetic Poetry Conditions Fixed

Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we might call 'the epiphanies of infancy' - the sensation of being blissfully held and feeling complete and at one with everything - yet having no words or no need to say it but instead to just assimilate the feeling. Michael Leunig

God Joy Words Feeling Sense Babies Complete Everything Benign Say Having More Poetic No Words Primal Instead Perhaps Call Blissfully Infancy Just Sensation Established Being Might Held Moments Assimilate Need

My secrets must be poetic to be believable. Mick Jagger

Secrets Must Poetic Believable

I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' My girl and I could not get up during intermission, we were so stunned. To this day it's the only thing I've seen on stage that's 100 percent real and 100 percent poetic simultaneously. Mike Nichols

Day School Mother Girl Seen Stage Gave Saw High High School Girlfriend Percent Only Poetic Could Had Performance Simultaneously Named Stunned Tickets Real Were Up Get The Only Thing Theater Us Intermission Whose Thing Streetcar Second Desire Night

You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm. Nas

You Conversation Rap Kind Poetic Like Know Sort Talking Doing Hear Just African Form Just Kind Rhythm Rhythmic Right Slaves

All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more. Oskar Kokoschka

A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that. Peter Hook

Soul Myth Definitely Tortured Poetic He Sensitive

I love Tennessee Williams pieces; they are so poetic and I love period pieces. Richard Hatch

Love Williams Poetic Tennessee Tennessee Williams Pieces Period Period Pieces

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct. Rick Perlstein

Correct Willing Detail Follow Shakespeare Poetic Mistaken Principle Overlook Historian Historical Inaccuracy Storyteller Personally Speaking Basically

New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure; densely populated, but full of farms and woods, with the most deer of any state. Robert Pinsky

Enough State Cosmopolitan Poetic New Unsure Most New Jersey Close York Any New York Woods Urban Far Full Farms Jersey Deer

Whether they are actual poets or their music exemplifies a poetic sensibility, generally speaking, the Americana artist shuns commercial compromise in favor of a singular vision. Which resonates with me. Rodney Crowell

Music Me Vision Resonates Favor Compromise Poetic Poets Generally Singular Commercial Artist Sensibility Whether Which Speaking Americana Actual

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