Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.
There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.
The poetic image exists apart from causality.
When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.
DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to reality. Choose the one that's best for you. Escape into the world of imagination.
Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever.
A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche
He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.
Black is not sad... Black is poetic.
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.
Music is love in search of a word.
After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.
Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.
I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time.
He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.
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.
Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And that's why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.
I'm not interested in writing overtly autobiographical songs. I would rather explore interesting stories. I like the idea of the songs being evocative and distinctive, so I have in my mind the atmosphere that a film could evoke. I like to think of them existing in their own little world.
Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?
