Poetic Quotes - Page 27

• I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.

  Kurt Sutter

  Writing, Focus, Guy

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• Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thinking, America, Progress

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.794, Library of America

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• Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Worry, Sculpture

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• Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Wall, Moving, Mean

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• The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

  Milan Kundera

  Beautiful, Memories, Brain

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, Gay, Poetry

  'Letter from Italy' (1704)

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• The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a tried metrical suasion-contrivance or a specially invented pattern of physical insistences, equally, if not more, binding in its effect on the reader. From a straight linguistic point of view, there is room for wonder if there is not latent vice in this environment in which pleasurable physically-compelled responses, produced by incidents of poetic utterance, are identified with the Good.

  Laura Riding

  Views, Vices, Attention

  "The Promise of Words". London Review of Books, Vol. 17, No. 17, p. 23, September 07, 1995.

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• When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Waiting, Style, Ransom

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• Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

  Laura Riding

  Musical, Fit, Surrender

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• There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Arrogance, Bees

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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