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Quotes About Poetic

A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.
~ Thomas Mann
La fotografía es un arte poético porque, al mostrarnos "esto", alude o presenta a "aquello". Comunicación continua entre lo explícito y lo implícito, lo ya visto y lo no visto. El dominio propio de la fotografía, como arte, no es distinto al de la poesía: lo impalpable y lo imaginario.
~ Octavio Paz
Credevo (e credo) che una tradizione poetica non si definisca attraverso il concetto politico di nazionalità ma attraverso la lingua e i rapporti che s'intessono tra gli stili e i loro creatori.
~ Octavio Paz
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own scent. The issue is the same for all real poets. If you've been happy for too long, you become banal. By the same token, if you've been unhappy for a long time, you lose your poetic power...Happiness and poverty can only coexist for the briefest time. Afterword either happiness coarsens the poet or the poem is so true it destroys his happiness.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.
~ Oscar Wilde
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 Hellion Glover
Ada's ability to appreciate the beauty of mathematics is a gift that eludes many people, including some who think of themselves as intellectual. She realized that math was a lovely language, one that describes the harmonies of the universe and can be poetic at times.
~ Walter Isaacson
When I realize how distorted even recent events have become, history as such only arouses my scepticism. Whereas a poetic interpretation achieves a general effect of the period. After all, there are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
~ Charlie Chaplin
AirWalker. With a name like that, it had to be Mitch Walker's plane. Was it possible she'd found herself a bush pilot with a poetic soul?
~ Cheryl Cooke Harrington
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
~ Harold Bloom
Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.
~ Lawrence Durrell
One of the most poetic facts I know about the universe is that essentially every atom in your body was once inside a star that exploded. Moreover, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than did those in your right. We are all, literally, star children, and our bodies made of stardust.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
What promotes the power and pleasure of learning with and through materials? How can an atelier inspire and sustain creative, innovative thinking and learning throughout the school community? What kind of organization and interconnections among materials, spaces, people, and ideas do we need to invent in our North American context for poetic, expressive languages to flourish and to make the teaching and learning experience rich and whole?
~ Lella Gandini
Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.
~ Lenore Kandel
Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.
~ Leo Tolstoy
For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.
~ William-Adolphe Bouguereau
I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more # romantic than the present day
~ Fabian Perez
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
~ Manuel Puig
Even though you picture Russians as stoic, their language is really poetic.
~ Rachel Riley
Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic.
~ John Darnielle
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
First and foremost, I'm an oral storyteller - I'll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time.
~ Isobelle Carmody
Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever.
~ Ellie Goulding