Poesy's Quotes

Music is inarticulate poesy. — John Dryden

I believe you have to make things happen. — Clemence Poesy

I just love a girl in a hat. It's really sexy. — Clemence Poesy

I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks. — Clemence Poesy

O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed. — John Keats

My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s. — Clemence Poesy

I knew fashion was going to be part of my job, so I thought I might as well have fun with it. — Clemence Poesy

I must have you, completely, at my table and in my bed, or I shall waste away like a starving prisoner. There you have it; forgive the lack of poesy. — Anne Fortier

I think it is important to pass on the message to young people who are going through a difficult time with friends that it will pass. — Clemence Poesy

If I ever get married myself, it'll be in jeans. — Clemence Poesy

I can wait for film projects without having to do things to live. — Clemence Poesy

Yet should there hover in their restless heads
One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least,
Which into words no virtue can digest. — Christopher Marlowe

I think denim is something everyone feels comfortable in. It's kind of my uniform, really. — Clemence Poesy

I believe a lot in the relationship between performers. When you're supported by someone's eyes, you're not alone. — Clemence Poesy

I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life. — Clemence Poesy

I know London very well. — Clemence Poesy

In Los Angeles, you feel like everything revolves around the movies. In Paris, you still have other things to do. — Clemence Poesy

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York. — Clemence Poesy

The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well. — Clemence Poesy

I think what is interesting in life is all the cracks and all the flaws and all the moments that are not perfect. — Clemence Poesy

Ay, Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. — William Shakespeare

I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric. — Allen Ginsberg

That's the problem with the Internet: You do a naked scene and then it's taken out of context and put on websites that have nothing to do with film. — Clemence Poesy

I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself. — Clemence Poesy

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Over-mastered by some thoughts, I yeelded an inckie tribute unto them. — Philip Sidney

In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends' houses to see them. I still don't have a TV! — Clemence Poesy

I never hire a stylist. — Clemence Poesy

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume. — Clemence Poesy

I feel like I'm extremely normal. I do have a bizarre face that's a bit out of proportion. I guess that's why some people see me as strange. — Clemence Poesy

Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York. — Clemence Poesy

I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time. — Clemence Poesy

Away! away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy, — John Keats

We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well. — Logan Pearsall Smith

I've been wearing jeans all my life. I remember my first denim as a kid because my mum used to buy me OshKosh overalls. — Clemence Poesy

A drainless shower
Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power;
'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm. — John Keats

As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life. — Clemence Poesy

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy. — Abraham Cowley

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way. — Clemence Poesy

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light. — Isaac Watts

Life went a-maying
With Nature, Hope, and Poesy,
When I was young! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men. — James Russell Lowell

I constantly make fashion mistakes but I think it's good to take risks. — Clemence Poesy

There's a kind of amateurishness among French actresses, but I don't share that completely. — Clemence Poesy

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life. — Clemence Poesy

An actor alone is a bit naked. Like when you do something in front of your mirror, you're usually really bad, because you're looking at yourself. — Clemence Poesy

To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them. — Clemence Poesy

I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave. — Clemence Poesy

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door. — Plato