Words matter. These are the best Poetic Quotes from famous people such as Leigh Bardugo, Marguerite Young, Adam West, William Klein, Barbara Walters, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s all well and good to turn in a beautiful poetic phrase that ends up on a pillow but I want there to be a visceral response to what I write.
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.
French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there’s never any violence in the photographs: it’s only in the photographic style.
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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.
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.
I may not be poetic but i’d love to write songs that convey my true feelings.
In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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.
The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.
My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn’t.
I think there’s something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They’re giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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.
Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
I was a huge movie watcher, but I really loved ‘Kenan & Kel,’ ‘Rugrats,’ ‘Doug,’ & ‘Catdog.’ I was also into drama films, though, and I really loved ‘Poetic Justice’ and ‘Set it Off.’
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
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.
My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship – the idea that black people are from outer space, there’s a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.
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.
The next president of the United States will be the president that will celebrate 100 years of women having the right to vote. I mean, I think having a woman president lead that celebration would be, you know, one of these instances of history really working out right in a poetic and beautiful way.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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.
In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all ‘poetic’ in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.
When it comes to ‘Maruvaarthai,’ I have said many a time that Carnatic music drives my creative influence. In that sense, Darbuka Siva gave me a lot of room to breathe with the melody. The instrumental, however, was grounded. The lyrics is just poetic, and phonetically, they sound beautiful.
My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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.
Faulkner’s characters, too, were uneducated. They were deprived, but they were allowed to have very rich inner lives. I want to advocate for that, for inner lives that are much more complicated and more poetic than we think.
Even though you picture Russians as stoic, their language is really poetic.
In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And that’s why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.
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.
Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.
When I was about eighteen, I saw myself as a rather sensitive, delicate, poetic, romantic figure. And then I got into the Civilian Conservation Corps and into the army, and I started smoking and drinking and being tough and getting muscles, and I had a whole different image of myself.
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
Racism is old, but Peele found a poetic new way of talking about it. He gave us language we didn’t know we lacked.
I don’t believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
I definitely had some heated but extremely productive chats with screenwriter Justin Monjo, but while it’s my story, it’s their movie, so I have to allow for compression and poetic license.
It seems the more I play Jane Austen, the more poetic my writing becomes. The other day, I left a Post-it note for my husband that had the word ‘ergo’ on it. I gotta rein it in before I get all full out Madonnannoying.
George has left in his songs, in the transcendent beauty of his voice, and in the poetic expression of his soul, the very best of himself.
In ‘Blindspotting’ I play a girl from Oakland, I’ve got an accent, I’ve got long, ’90s ‘Poetic Justice’ braids, and in ‘Monsters and Men’ I play a girl from Brooklyn.
Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?
Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it’s full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak.
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.
If you’re a writer, you know there are ways in which we don’t know what we’re doing at all. We’re working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you’re dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth – he was definitely that.
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.
I saw an e-mail from one guy who’s about 23 to one of peers. His parting sign-off was ‘Don’t let the bedbugs bite.’ Now that’s really poetic.
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.
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.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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!’
