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“Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.”

Men Spirit Culture Speak Nature He Man Draws Flames Engaged Poetic Artificial

Book:Friedrich Schiller Poet of Freedom Volume III

Source: Friedrich Schiller Poet of Freedom Volume III

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

Language Destiny Speech Poetry Is Poetic Newness

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“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.”

Ifs Firsts My Own Movement Mark Experiments Poetic Justification Dictatorship Polemics

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

“It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.”

Soul Poetry Imagination Common Consciousness Poet Opening Poetic Intentionality

Author:Gaston Bachelard

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

Ideas Numbers Seeing Equal Poetic Splits Rhyme Rhyming Motifs

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”

Poetry Poet Rain Poetic Lightning Rainy Rainy Day Raining Day Inspirational Rain Happy Rain Rains Beauty Standing In The Rain

Author:James Dickey

“Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying to create. Our job is to support their poetic direction.”

Trying Jobs Emotion Support Directors Function Theatre Mood Poetic Playwright Lighting

Author:Jules Fisher

“I have a large personal collection of pictures. For every project, I choose images. Usually I don't do this until I've done an extensive script breakdown and distilled the text down to poetic form. I have to plant enough seeds so that there will be vibration.”

Done Enough Form Projects Plant Scripts Seeds Theatre Collections Poetic Vibrations Breakdown

Author:Christine Jones

“It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in science.-It was that led Newton to the invention of fluxions, and the discovery of gravitation, and Harvey to find out the circulation of the blood, and Davy to those views which laid the foundation of modern chemistry.”

“Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.”

Self Literature House Voice Rooms Worst Cry Ego Empty Poetic Sense Of Place Empty Rooms

Author:William Kennedy

“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.”

Thinking Writing I Can Bigs Running House Fans Honest Car Music Is Pops Combination Memorable Poetic Melody Peter Eric

Author:Jill Phillips

“Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.”

Writing Excited Poetic Bewildered

Author:Matthea Harvey

“I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests.”

I Can Use Feelings Language Lines Tree Feet Demand Bird Logic Notes Guitar Musical Metaphor Forests Desert Poetic Solo Crowded Violin Guitar Solos Stomping Musical Notes

Author:Noah Cicero

“The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities. The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true, the stronger the image will be - the greater its emotional power and poetic reality..”

Mind Two Reality Born Greater Creation Emotional Pure Stronger Comparison Poetic Juxtaposition Emotional Power

Author:Pierre Reverdy

“A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world that is strange, brutal and poetic at once and ultimately achieves the kind of spirit-healing few novels do”

World Kind Hands Spirit Sound Healing Novel Achieve Strange Extraordinary Passionate Wounds Poetic Brutal Compelling Vivid Clapping

Author:Niall Williams

“At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.”

Firsts Has Beens Age Easy Sound Nuclear Poetic Formal Linked Explosions Continuity Interrupted Preoccupation Decorum

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

“Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.”

Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

“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.”

Art Ideas Opinion Subjects Particular Strange Poetic Surrealism Illogical

Author:Paul Delvaux

“LOVE: Deception of the flesh and damage to the spirit. Disease of the soul, atrophy of the brain, weakening of the heart, corruption of the senses, poetic lies from which one gets ferociously inebriated two or three times a day in order to consume this precious but stupid life more quickly. And yet I would prefer to die of love. Its the only swindler, after Judas, that can kill with a kiss.”

Heart Two Soul Spirit Lying Order Dies Three Brain Stupid Kissing Disease Corruption Flesh Senses Deception Damage Poetic Three Times Weakening Judas Atrophy Swindlers Stupid Life

Author:Renzo Novatore

“Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In a world of misunderstanding and stigmas, the young Smoak searches for love and acceptance, and his readers can’t help but find themselves becoming emotionally attached to him. His is an observant and encompassing story, noticing the brilliance of existence that others might take for granted. The sunsets written here are more lovely than in life.”

“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.”

Use Differences Path Walking Moon Resources Forgotten Valuable Titles Subtle Poetic Insightful Twelve Phases Topics Historic Astrology Neglected Ravens Zodiac

Author:Christopher Penczak

“I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with his mentor, the Spanish surrealist Luis Buuel.”

Moved Filmmaker Poetic Mentor Mexican Recollection Isaac Charmed Surrealist

Author:C. M. Mayo

“Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point.”

Ifs Hands Clear Fishes Consideration Fishing Poetic Aesthetic Solitary Catching Contemplative Fly Fishing Misanthropic Catching Fish

Book:Dances With Trout

Source: Dances With Trout

“Living by synchronicity isn't merely about getting messages. It is about growing the poetic consciousness that allows us to taste and touch what rhymes and resonates in the world we inhabit, and how the world-behind-th e-world reveals itself by fluttering the veils of our consensual reality.”

World Reality Behinds Consciousness Growing Taste Messages Poetic Rhyme Veils Synchronicity Fluttering

Author:Robert Moss

“No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children...I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic”

Thinking Want Believe Children Persons Fun Parent Interesting Evolution Myth Arguing Educated Poetic Adam Surprising Falsehood Adam And Eve Educated Person

Author:Richard Dawkins

“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.”

Ifs Feels Whole Feelings Hands Process Rooms One Thing Special Cards Pockets Poetic Touching Seconds Pulling Magician Digging Deck Most Amazing Shuffling Deck Of Cards

Author:David Blaine

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

Doe Wise Unique Library Innocent Poetry Is Poetic Learning Experience

Book:Creative Glut: Selected Essays of Karl Shapiro

Source: Creative Glut: Selected Essays of Karl Shapiro

“There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed had some world-class professors myself when I went through the curriculum, I rarely saw such gnosic or concretist/poetic passion among them. I am not speaking of broad histrionics or melodramatic delivery, but rather a moral investment of concern, of loving delight and pathos in exposing one's consciousness to the full horrific and magnificent implications of the materials.”

“MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES WHICH ARE EQUAL TO THOSE OF PROSE. I WANTED TO DEMONSTRATE HOW CINEMA IS ABLE TO OBSERVE LIFE, WITHOUT INTERFERING, CRUDELY OR OBVIOUSLY, WITH ITS CONTINUITY. FOR THAT IS WHERE I SEE THE POETIC ESSENCE OF CINEMA.”

People Trying Believe Art Able Wanted Possibility Equal Essence Instruments Cinema Prose Poetic Filmmaking Consistently Interfere Continuity

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“A ghostly side note Soldier boy Miller played a Lucifer-like character in the final two episodes of Joan of Arcadia. Coincidence I do find it strangely poetic, ... that a character who shows up on a show about God to play something kind of satanic winds up in the very last two episodes of that show, and then appears in the show that replaces that show on its exact time and night the following season.”

Kind Two Play Character Shows Lasts Night Sides Boys Wind Seasons Notes Finals Soldier Following Poetic Episodes Coincidence Lucifer Satanic Arcadia

Author:Wentworth Miller

“The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness follows. This reverie is written, or, at least, promises to be written. It is already facing the great universe of the blank page. Then images begin to compose and fall into place.”

Poetry Fall Universe Consciousness Study Written Promise Pages Track Poetic Blank Expanding Reverie Fall Into Place Blank Pages Right Track

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.”

Poetry Fall Consciousness Records Harmony Senses Poetic Reverie Polyphony

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.”

“Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.”

Book Ideas Light Age Memories Simple Old Age Poetry Is Poetic New Ideas New Age Animated Unified Sprung Old Books Brochures

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space above us". He describes the fragility of our existence in poetic terms: "the atmospheric layer is so thin that it cannot be represented on any globe with even the finest brushstroke. At its thickest, it is only a few fractions of a millionth of the Earth's radius. This thin layer is what makes the difference between our planet and the sterile landscape of the moon." After reading that, one does feel the need to take better care of this fragile layer.”

“I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.”

Thinking Poet Poetic

Book:Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews

Source: Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews

“A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.”

Language Function Poetic Scholar Indifferent Deaf Linguistics Linguists Anachronism

Book:Language in Literature

Source: Language in Literature

“All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.”

Self Moments Spiritual Forget Consciousness Intellectual Creator Artistic Poetic Great Work Self Consciousness

Author:Walpola Rahula

“Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.”

Way Persons Poetry Certain Natural Memories Forget Particular Poet Genius Originals Impression Poetic Never Forget Freshness Natural Gifts

Author:Stephen Spender

“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”

Different Reading Effects Capacity Poetic Display Continuing Consumed

Book:The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the haiku was the poetic expression of Zen. Not surprisingly, his books attracted the attention of the Beat school, most notably writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, all of whom had a prior interest in Zen.”

Book School Poetry Interest Attention Four Expression Beats Assumption Poetic Volume Translations Haiku Gary Ginsberg

Author:Reginald Horace Blyth

“Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If justice were poetic, Hubert Green would win it every year.”

Ifs Years Winning Justice White Paper Green Cups Grass Chairs Poetic Rope Georgia Concessions Folding Green Grass

Author:John Updike

“I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.”

World Elements Chaos Dull Poetic

Book:Ben Shahn

Source: Ben Shahn

“The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found.”

Source: The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?

“The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing... formless intelligences but... it does not do so for the sake of art, but as a concession to the nature of our own mind. It uses scriptural passages in an uplifting fashion as a way, provided for us from the first, to uplift our mind in a manner suitable to our nature.”

Way Mind Firsts Doe Art Use Christian Fashion Sake Uplifting Orthodox Poetic Word Of God Passages Imagery Suitable Discussing Concessions

Author:Pope Dionysius

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

Childhood Elements Shadow Theater Boxes Setting Settings Poetic Pastime

Author:Joseph Cornell

“Black is not sad... Black is poetic.”

Black Poetic

Author:Ann Demeulemeester

“When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out. In discovering the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I am working towards restoring the common ground that once existed when people lived in harmony with animals.”

People Men Language Animal Common Harmony Snow Poetic Discovering Ashes Sensibility Restoring Common Ground

Author:Gregory Colbert

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

Taste British Poetic Validation Arbiter Linton

Author:Linton Kwesi Johnson

“For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference.”

Thinking Bigs Black Differences Dark Classic Poetic Gothic

Author:Ann Demeulemeester

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