Poetic Quotes - Page 26

• ...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Dream, Art, Strange

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• The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.

  Tennessee Williams

  Memories, Heart, Emotional

  Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.143, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

  Real, Writing, Pride

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• Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.131, Graphic Arts Books

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• A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

  James Broughton

  Life Is, Cradle, Born

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• Moon Phase Astrology is a valuable resource on a neglected topic. Through the use of descriptive and poetic titles, insightful text, and inspiring historic quotes, Raven Kaldera illuminates the subtle differences of the often forgotten Moon phases through the twelve zodiac signs. A must read for those walking the path of the Moon.

  Christopher Penczak

  Moon, Zodiac, Ravens

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• Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical.

  Paul Delvaux

  Art, Ideas, Opinion

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• This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that things will go better, but difficulties exist and nothing is served by hiding them under a poetic veil or under a lyricism of the past. I am against slogans.

  Chinua Achebe

  Eye, Past, Men

  Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors (1997). “Conversations with Chinua Achebe”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Writing, Should Have

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• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

  Abraham Lincoln

  Daughter, Mother, Truth

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• In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Wall, Creative, Solitude

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

  Orson Welles

  Movie, Eye, Film Directing

  1958 'Un ruban de reves' in L'Express, 5 Jun. Reprinted in English in International Film Annual, no.2.

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• To most magicians, cards themselves are marvels...For one thing, they feel special in your hand. Touching them, holding them, shuffling - the whole process is almost poetic. If you're in a room full of magicians and someone just mentions the word cards, within seconds, everyone is digging into their pockets and pulling out a deck of cards. It's one of the most amazing feelings ever.

  David Blaine

  Hands, Touching, Feelings

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• Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.

  Ann Demeulemeester

  Fashion, Depressing, Color

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• A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.

  V. Vale

  Tattoo, Eye, Unique

  V. Vale, Andrea Juno (1989). “Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritual”, V/Search

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• En ge  ne  ral, plus un peuple est civilise  , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe  tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows.

  Denis Diderot

  Moral, Plus, Civilized

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• Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Music, Religious, Teaching

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• All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet, it is seen in fine poetry and poetic prose. When the Light of the Sun of Truth inspires the mind of a painter, he produces marvellous pictures. These gifts are fulfilling their highest purpose, when showing forth the praise of God.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Beautiful, Art, Light

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• Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

  Joseph Campbell

  Nature, Art, Mirrors

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.68, Anchor

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• You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

  Anton Chekhov

  Soul, Ordinary, Looks

  "The Boor" by Anton Chekhov, sc. viii, 1888.

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• There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

  Anton Chekhov

  Beautiful, Touching, Indifferent

  "After the Theatre". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1892.

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• I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema verite as a cinema of lies that depends on the art of telling yourself lies. If you’re a good storyteller then the lie is more true than reality, and if you’re a bad one, the truth is worse than a half lie.

  Jean Rouch

  Art, Lying, Reality

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• In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was supposedto be represented here, that the artist has been prevented from doing it and most humbly asks to be kindly excused.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Artist, Poetry, Here And There

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• Eric Peters' music is at the top of what gets played around my house, in my car and while I am running.  I am a big fan.  He writes incredibly honest and poetic lyrics coupled with memorable pop melodies and I can think of no better combination.

  Jill Phillips

  Running, Memorable, Writing

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• My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

  Mick Jagger

  Keeping Secrets, Secret, Believable

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