“ Just as I do not want my students to imitate my style, I admire authors who write differently from me. Lewis and Dreiser didn't try to write in a poetic style. ”
- Marguerite Young- Copy
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“ I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience. ”
- Marguerite Young- Copy
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“ Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- William Kennedy- Copy
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“ Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime. ”
- Joseph Cornell- Copy
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“ The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. ”
- Joseph Brodsky- Copy
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“ The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme. ”
- Stéphane Mallarmé- Copy
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“ That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature. ”
- Phyllis Battelle- Copy
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“ I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ”
- Umberto Eco- Copy
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“ Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: — in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ”
- Max Eastman- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. ”
- St. Thomas Aquinas- Copy
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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. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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“ If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. ”
- Fran Lebowitz- Copy
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“ Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars. ”
- Giambattista Vico- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Marguerite Young- Copy
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“ I think that the style is the writing, a beautiful sense of style. And if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what you write, it doesn't really make any difference. I'm not speaking of realistic novels now, but of the pseudo-poetic novel or short story. ”
- Marguerite Young- Copy
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“ The poetical intention, if concentrated enough, is already poetry, or rather is the essence of poetry, and is the only thing that lends meaning to the poetry. Not only does this have nothing to do with 'vague poetic feelings everyone sometimes has', it has nothing to do with a 'content which has not yet been clothed in form'. ”
- Simon Vestdijk- Copy
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“ I think that the secret is, again it brings me back to balance and a kind of mathematics. I realised this, and it was a shocking realisation, it was quite terrifying: that when I was playing Hamlet, I realised there was no way round it, for the two-and-a-half hours of that play I had to be as intelligent as the most intelligent man in dramatic poetic literature… ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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