Poetic Quotes - Page 24

• In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Poetry, Roles, Literature

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• Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Song, Flower, Writing

  Song: Poetic Justice, 2012

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• Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Poetic License, Giving, Doe

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• The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.

  Roman Jakobson

  Art, Poetry, Focus

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• Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.

  Stephen Spender

  Memories, Poetry, Genius

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• Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

  Joseph Cornell

  Childhood, Shadow, Elements

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• My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that poetry, the telling images, the brevity. I want to hear it in my own work as well as in the poetry I read. However, I think I'm generally more forgiving of other poets than myself.

  David Starkey

  Thinking, Forgiving, Listening

  Source: andreaauten.wordpress.com

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• Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

  Leigh Hunt

  Justice, Poetry, Tree

  Leigh Hunt, S. Hamilton (1815). “The Feast of the Poets: With Other Pieces in Verse”, p.168

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• The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur. -People who think they are trapped in a river of regularized and ever-repeating time are merely the victims of their own ordinarizing minds that have elaborated for them a prison-cell of everydayness. The fountains of time, history, life, inspiration, etc. are fresh every instant, if one knows how to grasp them with some finesse: every instant within natural, historical, and personal time is unique.

  Kenny Smith

  Memories, Philosophy, Inspiration

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• The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Jobs, Children

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• The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my next, method. I do not speak it in vanity, but simply record the fact, that I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion. I will freely add, that I was not insensible to the late John Jacob Astor's good opinion.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Vanity, Names

  Herman Melville (2006). “Bartleby the Scrivener: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.

  Aberjhani

  Beauty, Passion, Self

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• I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

  Mari Evans

  Trying, Who We Are, Language

  Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”

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• Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Inspirational, Motivational, History

  Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, James A. Grimshaw (1998). “Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence”, p.15, University of Missouri Press

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• I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.

  Brenda Ueland

  Children, Memories, Flower

  Brenda Ueland (1939). “Me”

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• The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There was their courageous, intellectually adventurous side, their greedy and inhuman side, their superbly poetic side, their morally pretentious side, their tea and buttered toast side, and their champagne and Skittles side. Much like ourselves, in fact, though rather dirtier.

  Robertson Davies

  Tea, Facts, Sides

  "The Girl with the Swansdown Seat/Abode of Love/1848". 1956.

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• A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.

  Sherman Alexie

  Use, Comedy, Language

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, www.english.illinois.edu. 2000.

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• Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone who has the personal power to bring you into altered states of awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Enlightenment, Wonderful

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• I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand of his Maker was poetic in both mind and body, but the gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

  John Muir

  Spiritual, Men, Hands

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• A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

  Rene Magritte

  Dream, Poetry, Canvas

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• O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Song, Brave, Soul

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.206

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• 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

  Dream, Memories, Past

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.520, Vintage

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• Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Wildlife, Vices

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• The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Ideas, People, Feelings

  Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose "The Nature and Aims of Fiction" (1969)

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• I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer. I'm the rapper. I'm the visionary. I'm the music producer. I'm the executive producer. I'm just going to end it off to be poetic: I'm the future of music.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, Rapper, Visionaries

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