Poetic quotes
146 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence."
"I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island."
"Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism."
"There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing."
"The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."
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"Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk."
"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."
"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."
"The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction."
"Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic."
"A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation."
"There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot."
"I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed."
"The poet doesn't invent. He listens."
"I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry."
"Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge."
"I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet."
"'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know."
"To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one."
"As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical."
"The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed."
"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."
"I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become."
"There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent."
"We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we."
