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Quotes About Poetic

I always believed that If I'm not carrying at least a slight poetically painful crack in my heart I've been cheated by nature.
~ Annie Ali
God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a very passive, very loving approach, can.
~ Rajneesh
Let your life be joyful, mystical, everlasting blossoms of poetic ecstasy.
~ Debasish Mridha
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
~ Thomas Aquinas
A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.
~ Rene Magritte
The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.
~ Cecil Day-Lewis
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
~ Novalis
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
~ Franz Grillparzer
I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me.
~ Julie Kagawa
Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees.
~ Ged Thompson ~Poet
Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
~ Matthew Arnold
There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know.
~ William Cowper
The hills,Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun.
~ William Cullen Bryant
The Great Mystery." This was one of the more poetic interpretations of Kitchimanidoo, which was also translated as the Great Spirit or sometimes the Creator. Stephen, in his efforts at spiritual understanding, had come to believe that whatever you called this spirit—God, Allah, Kitchimanidoo—it was an integrated consciousness on a cosmic scale, the interconnectedness of all creation.
~ William Kent Krueger
Walter Murch, the sound editor and film director, said, "Music was the main poetic metaphor for that which could not be preserved
~ David Byrne
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song.
~ David Byrne
Japanese medical people are traditionally very strange and creepily poetic.
~ David Cronenberg
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God is the poetic genius in each of us.
~ William Blake
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
~ Arthur Erickson
I remember Ronald Firbank once said, upon entering a bookshop, something like, "Do you have anything in my line, you know, something dreamy and vague?
~ Edmund White
On his childhood] You know, I would like to think that I was much more poetic and sensitive than anybody else, but I don't think it was true.
~ Edward Gorey
On his childhood] I'm sure mine was happier than I imagine in retrospect. I look back and think, Oh poetic me, but it simply was not true. I was out playing Kick-the-Can along with everyone else.
~ Edward Gorey
Retribution. Poetic justice. Just deserts. Comeuppance.
~ Alex Flinn