“In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child's soul with poetry every day.” ChildrenSoulSelfExpressionShapesMythGreekPoeticSelf Expression Author:Hermann Hesse
“What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.” ThinkingShouldArtPhilosophyExpressionLogicVisualsPoetic Author:Naum Gabo
“Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.” WritingBookRememberFormWrittenWorstExpressionComfortActressesPoeticClosestRhymePicture Books Author:Kirby Larson
“Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as well as invariant, may be involved in the expression of the content.", "Analysis of the Poetic Text.” WellsMayArtFormPoetryLanguageExpressionInvolvedElementsFeaturesAnalysisPoeticConventionalIconic Author:Yuri Lotman
“Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start oriented toward expression, and terminates in a word proffered, it wants to speak; whereas mystical because it emanates from the deepest longing of the spirit bent on knowing, tends of itself toward silence and internal fruition. Poetic experience is busy with the created world and the enigmatic and innumerable relations of existents with one another, not with the Principle of Being.” WorldWantSpiritPoetrySpeakSilencePrinciplesCreativityKnowingPoetExpressionRelationLongingBusyInternalsPoeticMysticalBentFruitionEmanateEnigmaticMystical Experiences Author:Jacques Maritain
“Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.” HumanityEconomicExpressionIndiaUnitySymbolsIndianPoeticEconomic FreedomFreedom And EqualityNehru Book:India of My Dreams Source: India of My Dreams
“For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.” FactsFormPurposeExpressionMessagesInevitablePoetic Book:Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose
“[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly described his work, but also for embodying the contradictions within it.” SongExpressionDeserveTraditionContradictionPrizePoeticBobCommitteesDylanNobelNobel PrizeGreat American Author:Jay Michaelson
“I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.” IfsSelfSometimesCareQualityExpressionPoeticAphorismSurrealTweetSelf Expression Author:Joyce Carol Oates