Poetic Quotes

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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

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.

Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

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.

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.

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.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

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.

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

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

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

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

I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.

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

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call "poetic reality." That's something you see played out in film noir, where the technique establishes the mood.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

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

Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk.

I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. .

Life ain't a concept. Music is not a concept. My titles are poetic abstractions of something that is with me all the time, not necessarily in music, but in life. Everybody's life.

I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.

I think anyone who follows me knows how I react. It's not always poetic and perfect but neither am I.

The photographer must be absorbent - like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment... His technique should be like an animal function... he should act automatically.

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.