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“A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.”

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Author:Arthur Miller

“To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him.”

Want Use Eye Given Force Challenges Refuse Poetic Realistic Originality Contests Temperament

Author:Guy de Maupassant

“So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what he is noticing, continuous alertness to catch himself thinking or seeing, devotional attentiveness to the world he's moving through.”

Thinking World Problem Moving Artist Common Seeing Photographer Poetic Noticing Devotional Alertness Attentiveness

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)”

Ifs Whole Eye Sun Creation Painting Ideals Cameras Paint Poetic Flash Describing Whole Picture Camera Obscura

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.”

Knows Should Art Reality Form Imagination Essence Transformation Appearance Poetic Truth Of Life

Book:The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

“Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.”

Mean Stills Facts Reality Process Secret Mere Invention Mediums Data Poetic Capture Delicate Catching Osmosis

Author:Salvador Dali

“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.”

Should Moments Animal Function Photographer Technique Poetic

Author:Robert Doisneau

“I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.”

Writing Firsts Persons I Can Moving Dialogue Poetic First Person Utilitarian

Author:George Lucas

“Yes, there was a massive difference between their styles. David is a very technical director and Chris is an actor's director, in the sense of emotion. With David, he's done horror films, so Eclipse is much darker, whereas I found New Moon really light and poetic. I didn't have as much interaction with David because the casting process was already done.”

Done Light Film Actors Found Process Differences Emotion Style Horror Moon Directors Massive Poetic Interaction Casting Eclipse Horror Film New Moon

Author:Tinsel Korey

“My secrets must be poetic to be believable.”

Secret Poetic Believable Keeping Secrets

Author:Mick Jagger

“I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which mostly miss the living spirit behind the forms).”

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Book:Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer

Source: Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer

“If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)”

Ifs Art Photography Art Is Poetic Interpretation Translations Complement Exactitude

Author:Charles Negre

“Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a few details when necessary in favor of an imposing effect that would give a monument its real character and also preserve the poetic charm that surrounds it.”

Giving Real Character Cases Effects Details Favors Painter Preserves Charm Poetic Surround Monument Precision Imposing Picturesque Real Character

Author:Charles Negre

“Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.”

Soul Whole Body Form Imagination Genius Intelligent Fancy Poetic Good Sense

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.”

Writing Song Written Poetic

Author:Mike Gordon

“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.”

Music Is Concepts Titles Poetic Abstraction

Author:Merzbow

“I have a notebook that I take with me everywhere. I free-write in it when there are situations that I know I can write a song about. I will just start writing everything that I can think of while trying to write some things that are kind of poetic or sound like they could be in a song. Then, after the music is written, I go back and look at my subjects to see which one I think woud go with what music. Then, I formulate it into a melody and get the song.”

Thinking Knows Writing Trying Looks Kind I Can Song Sound Situation Written Subjects Music Is Poetic Melody Notebook

Author:Agent M

“How, then, has Obama been saddled with an image of being long on inspiration and short on details? The answer is that journalists are not accustomed to covering a candidate who moves crowds the way Obama does, who uses speech cadences and rhythm like Martin Luther King Jr. without making his talk explicitly about race. Sen. Clinton already owned the policy-wonk slot, so by default, Obama was cast as the poetic one.”

Way Long Doe Use Inspiration Moving Answers Race Policy Kings Speech Clinton Casts Details Crowds Rhythm Journalist Candidates Poetic Accustomed Luther Covering Default Cadence

Author:Howard Kurtz

“Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose poems. I can talk about poetic prose.”

I Can Sound Silence Prose Poetry Is Poetic Cadence

Author:Pattiann Rogers

“A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring.”

Writing Talent Boring Lists Poetic

Author:Pattiann Rogers

“I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.”

Quality Clarity Prose Poetic

Author:Pattiann Rogers

“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.”

Reality Film Missing Technique Mood Digital Poetic Filmmaking Noir Film Noir

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“I have poetic failures all the time. Many failed poems. I try not to publish those, though some have slipped into each book, since I can't always tell they're failures until later... or I don't want to admit that they are.”

Want Trying I Can Book Poetic Publish

Author:Matthea Harvey

“Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as Emily Dickinson said, it can blow the top of your head off. Poetic language is sometimes misunderstood as "abstract" when in reality, it's precise - precisely the language of emotions and the body.”

Said Sometimes Body Reality Language Space Emotion Cases Example Blow Abstract Poetic Precise Misunderstood Primal Emily Space Between Deep Emotions

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.”

People Thinking Reason Political Modern Poetic Discourse Strain Dropping Political Discourse Dropping Out

Author:Zephyr Teachout

“I'm sort of annoyed that some very basic things about poetic forms were not conveyed to me in the various poetry courses I took over the years.”

Years Form Courses Various Poetic Annoyed Basic Things

Author:Juliana Spahr

“They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.”

Has Beens Philosophy Literature Stuff Class Teach Teaching Department Poetic Harvard Rambling

Author:Dean Wareham

“I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.”

Philosophical Angry Poetic

Author:Michelle Stuart

“I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.”

Wanted Justice Originals Versions Poetic Verses Fireworks

Author:Hal Duncan

“The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state.”

States Concepts Connections Poetic Aesthetic Aesthetics

Author:Frederick C. Beiser

“He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique organization in the Islamic world. It's multiethnic, multilinguistic, multinational. He is a combat veteran, three times wounded. He has a huge reputation in the Islamic world for generosity and leadership. He's a man who speaks eloquent, almost poetic Arabic, according to Bernard Lewis.”

“I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.”

Guy Guitar Boxing Poetic Killers Junkie Serials Serial Killer Great Poet Classical Guitar

Author:Mark Kozelek

“One of my favorite French singers, Alain Bashung, was the expert at creating his own universe; no one knows what he's talking about, even he doesn't know because it's so poetic.”

Knows Universe Talking Creating My Favorite Singers Experts Poetic

Author:Thomas Mars

“I've always tried to be kind of poetic in my lyrical approach.”

Kind Approach Poetic Be Kind Lyrical

Author:Erik Rutan

“I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.”

Way Stills Ideas Speak Exciting Poetic Imagery Lyrical Surrealist

Author:Jeff Tweedy

“A lot of them [Germaqn actors] could come in and we could speak for the next nine hours in English and there would be no problem. It was - but it was - English wasn't the language for them to read poetry in. And there is a - there's a poetic quality to my dialogue.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier. We just didn't know about them. And then when they were discovered in the atmosphere, the idea that this is a material that would breathe in and exhale and becomes part of us for a while made it even more intriguing. The names, the Greek names, are interesting, too - if you translate neon, xenon and so forth are kind of interesting.”

Ifs Knows Years Firsts Kind Made Ideas Remember Names Interesting Materials Hundred Aspect Breathe Made It Atmosphere Greek Gas Poetic Translate Intriguing Neon Xenon

Author:Robert Barry

“I liked Jim Morrison a lot as a person. He was this very poetic character, and death was always on his mind. And it showed up in his songs - I mean, almost every song he wrote had something to do with dying. He was an American treasure that went way too soon.”

Way Mind Mean Persons Character Song Dying Treasure Poetic

Author:Alice Cooper

“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”

Poetry Poetic Great Poetry

Author:Joseph Joubert

“Patricia [Rozema] is really special, and she really worked hard to make the environment and the landscapes' natural beauty come alive. She was not forceful with anything, but enabled it to really have this poetic nature.”

Hard Natural Environment Alive Special Landscape Poetic

Author:Ellen Page

“Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I think - finding new ways of being poetic.”

Thinking Way Social Media Elements Findings Starting Social Media Etc Poetic New Ways

Author:George Saunders

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

Thinking Knows Perfect Know How Poetic Follow Me

Author:Chrissy Teigen

“The truth of religion comes from its symbolic rendering of man's moral experience; it proceeds intuitively and imaginatively. Its falsehood comes from its attempt to substitute itself for science and to pretend that its poetic statements are information about reality.”

Men Reality Moral Information Statements Poetic Substitutes Falsehood Symbolic Rendering

Author:Eugene Genovese

“The poetic temperament is the worst for golf. It dreams of brilliant drives, iron shots laid dead, and long putts holed, while in real golf success waits for him who takes care of the foozles and leaves the fine shots to take care of themselves.”

Long Real Dream Care Waiting Worst Fine Shots Golf Take Care Brilliant Iron Poetic Temperament Wait For Him

Author:Charles Walter Simpson

“Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering impressionism, so very different from the vivid, precise, magisterial (and often very funny) prose of her contemporary James Joyce.”

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Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Why should you be bogged down with my titles and how I thought about it and my poetic reasoning? No, that's not necessary. Either you're going to be drawn into it [or not]. It's a black hole; gravity should pull you in and you should have that experience.”

Should Black Should Have Holes Titles Reasoning Poetic Gravity Black Hole

Author:Leonardo Drew

“Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear.”

Mean Careers Poetic Bob Dylan Brilliance Transfiguration

Author:Bob Dylan

“[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.”

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Author:Jay Michaelson

“When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense of responsibility when you're trespassing. I think you haven't seen a film on volcanoes like that before. It's not National Geographic. It is wildly imaginative and very poetic and has a sense of awe that you normally do not see in films.”

Thinking Film Speak Common Responsibility Havens Common Sense Artistic Awe Poetic Imaginative Prudent Volcanoes Sense Of Responsibility National Geographic Trespassing

Author:Werner Herzog

“The simulator is the stage in-between television and virtual reality, a moment, a phase. The simulator is a moment that leads to cyberspace, that is to say, to the process because of which we now have two bottles instead of one. I might not see this virtual bottle, but I can feel it. It is settled within reality. This explains why the word virtual reality is more important than the word cyberspace, which is more poetic.”

Feels I Can Two Important Moments Reality Might Process Stage Television Poetic Bottles Phases Virtual Reality Cyberspace

Author:Paul Virilio