Poetic Quotes
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Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Milan Kundera
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The freedom of poetic license.
Cicero
Subject: Poetry QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou
Charles Baudelaire
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On how to take the violence in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) (re: The final duel with Lucy Liu): "It`s supposed to be kind of amusing and poetic at the same time. And also just a teeny-tiny bit solemn. When you see her head, it`s funny. And then her line, `tha...
Quentin Tarantino
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[On being called eccentric] Eccentric doesn`t bother me. "Eccentric" being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn`t follow the lines - that`s okay.
Crispin Glover
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Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.
Aleksander Suglobov
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers` battle with the heavens that cover them.
Alessandro Banchi
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The trouble with the performance poets is that they don`t seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
Peter Davison
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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.
Andrea Cerutti
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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?
Alex Garwood
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The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
Joseph Brodsky
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The poet`s other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.
Andrea Cerutti
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The only thing that I will do that will annoy some people is I am taking poetic license a little bit with time and space onstage,
Peter Sellars
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
Alex Garwood
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Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
Alyson Mike
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Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.
Joseph Cornell
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Alex Inglethorpe
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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
Allen J. Ellender
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Poetic talent doesn`t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
Andrew Shields
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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
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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.
Alan Reiter
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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience`s imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there`s no fourth wall.
Stephen Sondheim
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Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
Christopher Plummer
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
Pat Metheny
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It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.
Alisha Marquette
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It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
Aleksander Suglobov
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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.
Alyson Mike
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
Ambrosia Prudhomme
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I don`t believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
Alyson Mike
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I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life.
Anne Javouhey
