Quotes About Poetic

I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.

I love my style of writing. Nope, it's not the most poetic stuff you've ever read but you know, it can evoke emotions and images and smells and sensations, and that is what I set out to do.

Now he must put into practice all his fine poetic thoughts about romantic love.

Thomas Merton expresses the need for this mystical imperative: The Christian's vision of the world ought, by its very nature, to have in it something of poetic inspiration. Our faith ought to be capable of filling our hearts with a wonder and a wisdom which see beyond the surface of things and events, and grasp something of the inner and "sacred" meaning of the cosmos which, in all its movements and all its aspects, sings the praises of its Creator and Redeemer.2

Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.

I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.

Each moment is a poetic expression of the undefined. As long as it remains undefined, it has all the beauty of the world and it steps inside to nurture your dreams.

It's not in my nature to be too literal.

There was something exquisite and poetic about those fucking catastrophes.

and felt the strangeness of the city pressing in all around me, smells of tobacco and malt and nutmeg, café walls the melancholy brown of an old leather-bound book and then beyond, dark passages and brackish water lapping, low skies and old buildings all leaning against each other with a moody, poetic, edge-of-destruction feel, the cobblestoned loneliness of a city that felt—to me, anyway—like a place where you might come to let the water close over your head.

Escutemos bem Marc Bloch. Ele não diz: a história é uma arte, a história é literatura. Frisa: a história é uma ciência, mas uma ciência que tem como uma de suas características, o que pode significar sua fraqueza mas também sua virtude, ser poética, pois não pode ser reduzida a abstrações, a leis, a estruturas.

Poetic language that knows itself as such doesn't contradict reason. On the contrary, it reminds each speaking subject not to take the narrative of his mind's adventures for the voice of truth. Every speaking subject is the poet of himself and of things. Perversion is produced when the poem is given as something other than a poem, when it wants to be imposed as truth, when it wants to force action.

...creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a forest floor newly swept by rain.

We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

Perhaps instead it is a matter of an intuition on the poetic order, which establishes unexpected contact between remote elements that do not seem destined to come together. But that poem will never be written or read. I alone will hear it, incapable as I am of even humming it to myself. We are all bearers of such poems, which resist age because they are made only of time.

There is a poetic import to the phrase 'without a shadow of a doubt': in all probability, there is no doubt without a shadow. Doubt is the shadow cast when something gets in the way of the light. Ironically, doubt itself often brings greater light because of the shadow it casts.

I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? Axis of Evil? Come on. A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.

I try to live what I consider a poetic existence. That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

When it comes to fantasy formations, it is therefore essential to distinguish between (1) unconscious fantasies that curb our existential options and (2) imaginative and creative fantasies that allow us to observe the world from novel angles. Lacan's assault on narcissistic fantasies is directed at the former, whereas his commentary on the poetic potentialities of language could be argued to relate to the latter.

If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.

Hay irreverentes, y también historiadores, que sostienen que la virginidad de María es un error de traducción. Y puede que sí. Pero ya sea en arameo, zendo, jónico, eólico o ático, haya sido virgen o mujer normalmente sexuada, María es sobre todo una imagen poética, digna de parir a esa prometedora metáfora llamada Jesús (no olvidemos que expulsó del templo a los mercaderes).