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«Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.»
«Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.»
«It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns»
«Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.»
Author: Pablo Casals (Cellist, Conductor) | About: Heart, Music | Keywords: Beautiful Music, poetic
«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.»
Author: Milan Kundera (Novelist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Love, Metaphor | Keywords: enters, poetic
«I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.»
«LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox:I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire. That stupid shepherd lolling on his crook With deaf attention scarcely deigns to look. I bide my time, and it shall come at length, When, with a Titan's energy and strength, I'll grab a fistful of the strings, and O, The word shall suffer when I let them go! --Farquharson Harris»
«Poetic fire sank low in me When it was God I sought to see, But up it flamed, up to the sky, When it was Evil I had to fly»
«I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it»
«There is a pleasure in poetic painsWhich only poets know.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: poetic

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