Orhan Pamuk
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed."
Poetic License quotes
Poetic License
13 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
"I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"The freedom of poetic license."
Theo James
Musician
"New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is."
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