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“Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions.”

Reality Fantasy Wise Humour Lows Connections Definitions Absurd Nonsense Poetic Dogma Irrational Seriousness Faerie Very Wise

Author:Brian Froud

“Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!”

Poetry Justice Tree Seats Poetic Brooks Sparkling

Book:The Feast of the Poets: With Other Pieces in Verse

Source: The Feast of the Poets: With Other Pieces in Verse

“As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.”

Ifs Deeper London Poetry Is Poetic Console

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.”

Knows Life Is Born Poet Poetic Worth Living Cradle Life Worth Living

Author:James Broughton

“A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.”

Novelists Poetic License Poetic License

Book:Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller

Source: Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller

“Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.”

People Poetic License Poetic License

Author:Christopher Plummer

“It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.”

Language Cutting Prose Poetic Whips Repercussions

Author:Eugenio Montale

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

Ifs Waiting Style Poet Critics Prose Poetic Ransom

Author:John Crowe Ransom

“I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.”

Trying Has Beens Language Who We Are Poetic

Book:Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays

Source: Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays

“I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.”

Believe Political Strong Consciousness Novel Conscience Don't Believe Poetic

Author:Marguerite Young

“Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.”

Spirit Talent Poetic Polish Vacuums

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.”

Ideas Poetic Utterance

Book:A Little Order: Selected Journalism

Source: A Little Order: Selected Journalism

“Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.”

Philosophy Poetic Passages Realism Insert

Author:Marguerite Young

“English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.”

Should Mind Values Courses Literature Reader Drama Standards Inevitable Dramatic Poetic

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)

“An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.”

Men Mind Mean Earth Desire Speak Poet Poetic Verses Impossibility Harmonious Negation Duplication

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

“The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.”

Use Order Moral Creative Poet Judgment Scripture Resistance Certainty Poetic Prophetic

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

“Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.”

Stills Film Energy Moral Clear Europe Theater Institutions Entertainment Poetic

Author:Maximilian Schell

“Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.”

Long Whole Energy Drama Narrative Related Poetry Is Poetic Epic Persistent Succession

Book:The Lyric: An Essay

Source: The Lyric: An Essay

“I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.”

People Writing Trying Book Real Courses Style Prose Abandon Poetic Realistic Realism Surreal Back And Forth Drunkards

Author:Marguerite Young

“The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.”

Looks Form Difficult Written Poet Reader Approach Pages Distance Ancient Permanent Look Up Poetic

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

“Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.”

Literature Poetic Verses

Author:Howard Nemerov

“The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.”

Hands Poet Pure Poetic Speakers Disappearance

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.”

Children Courses Given Grows Growing Up Poet Our Children Insane Your Children Poetic Odds Playwright

Author:Mark Helprin

“Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.”

Men Poet Employment Live By Poetic

Book:The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres

Source: The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres

“The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.”

Earth Spiritual Poet Depends Poetic Discourse Mystique Spiritual Freedom

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

“But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.”

Stills Poet Extraordinary Obvious Poetic Psychologist Great Poet

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)

“Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.”

Poet India France Poetic Gracious Denmark

Author:James Broughton

“I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.”

New York Poet Poetic

Author:Kenneth Koch

“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.”

Stills Seems Eye Poetry Turns Fields Scene Gay Shining Classic Poetic Prospects Gilded

Author:Joseph Addison

“The freedom of poetic license.”

Poetry Freedom Poetic License Poetic License

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.”

“The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my next, method. I do not speak it in vanity, but simply record the fact, that I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion. I will freely add, that I was not insensible to the late John Jacob Astor's good opinion.”

Source: Bartleby the Scrivener: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right to the end, one may intoxicate one's spirit with flowers, with beauty and with smiles.”

May Persons Ends Lasts Young Joy Spirit Simple Childhood Flower Breaths Aging Enthusiasm Maturity Poetic Ecstasy Simple Joys Joys Of Childhood

Author:Eliphas Levi

“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”

Heart Moving Spirit Cases Building Products Unique Architecture Poetic Bad Ass Badass Architecture And Design Modern Architecture

Author:Arthur Erickson

“Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.”

Giving Doe Poetic License Paralyzed Poetic License

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“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.”

Ifs Writing Mean Song Justice Dark Rooms Flower Poetic Dark Room Blooming Flower

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur. -People who think they are trapped in a river of regularized and ever-repeating time are merely the victims of their own ordinarizing minds that have elaborated for them a prison-cell of everydayness. The fountains of time, history, life, inspiration, etc. are fresh every instant, if one knows how to grasp them with some finesse: every instant within natural, historical, and personal time is unique.”

“Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.”

Should Interesting Quality Elements Architecture Rational Mysterious Tension Poetic Inexplicable

Author:Annabelle Selldorf

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

Feels Space Situation Building Bounds Architecture Poetic Links Site Metaphysical Sense Of Place

Author:Steven Holl

“No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.”

Sin Century Hair Band Seven Radio Albums Poetic Metals 21st Century Deadly Sins Grunge Seven Deadly Sins Seven Sins Sleazes Hair Metal

Author:Chuck Eddy

“At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.”

Lines Poetic Relaxed Syllables Manageable

Author:James Fenton

“Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.”

Humans Religion Imagination Contrary Generous Poetic Imaginative Soulful Human Imagination

Author:Richard Dawkins

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

Ifs Doe Church Justice Poetic Marginalized

Author:Timothy Keller

“Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.”

Trying Hard Stories Religion Dog Missing Theology Statements Logical Poetic Propositions Theological Utterance Dogmatic

Author:W. H. Auden

“All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.”

States Imagination Leadership Quality Poet Scene Ruins Chiefs Poetic Adore Desirable Explosions Spectacular Tornadoes Carnage Thunderstorm

Author:W. H. Auden

“Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.”

Men Heart Religion Opinion Endure Poetic Conventions

Book:The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion

Source: The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion

“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.”

Has Beens Political Economic Myth Mythology Locals Great Things Poetic Denied Intricacy Incoherence

Book:The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

“Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.”

Source: The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo

“Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.”

Knows Needs Feels Sometimes Term Tired Poetic Sensitivity Precise Exquisite Unfamiliar Nuance Readership

Author:William Safire

“Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.”

Men Should May Values Universe Imagination Should Have Ease Faculty Poetic Sovereign Great Poet Wild Imagination

Book:Our Lady of the Flowers

Source: Our Lady of the Flowers