This collection holds 319 poetic quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are William Cowper, Annie Lennox and Ann Demeulemeester.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.

The poetic side of me is Scottish.

Black is not sad... Black is poetic.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

There is no art without a poetic aim.

The moment of change is the only poem.

God is the poetic genius in each of us.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

The poetic image exists apart from causality.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Bollywood songs are losing their poetic value.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Romanian is a very beautiful, sensual, poetic language.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.

He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.

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

I love Tennessee Williams; as a playwright, he's so poetic.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

I've always tried to be kind of poetic in my lyrical approach.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

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

- How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm... A poetic gladiator.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Few things sound so beautiful as the poetic accent of a Welsh woman.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

I want tragic and poetic forever! That's how I want to live every day.

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

Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.

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