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She woke to the sound of his heart knocking against his chest. As though it was searching for a way out. — Arundhati Roy

My heart, my secret diary, my companion. The well and the sacred place of my unborn wishes and desires. — Euginia Herlihy

Poetic injustice ... having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ... are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world. — Mother Jones

The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences. — Thomas Bernhard

Let your life be joyful, mystical, everlasting blossoms of poetic ecstasy. — Debasish Mridha

The windows are empty holes lined with glass teeth. — Isaac Marion

There are days that walk through me and I cannot hold them. — Katherine Larson

Your date will not be impressed by you throwing up on her brand-new shoes, as you spout poetic babblings that are meaningful only to you. — Gene Simmons

Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.. — Dan Sperber

Ava knew the incidental betrayals of life. — Nicki Salcedo

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem. — Eddie Shaw

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination. — Lauren DeStefano

you are
so delicious
to my poetic side. — Sanober Khan

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice. — Timothy Keller

For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference. — Ann Demeulemeester

Felix had left his heart buried in the ground years ago, but he felt it crack apart. — Lauren DeStefano

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream. — Rene Magritte

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. — Thomas Carlyle

Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house? — Charles Baudelaire

I would let myself be taken until I was nothing more than his creation, a poetic body, the divine alternative to womankind. — Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas? — Abraham Cowley

The inner and poetic illumination of his life came from me. — Anais Nin

I don't know what I'll do if I fall in love with him."
"If you fall, let him catch you. — Renee Carlino

The best value translations of the Poetic Edda are by Hollander from Texas Uni Press, or by Larrington of Oxford Uni Press. — Sweyn Plowright

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny

Every once in a while Carlos broke out of restrained cop mode and got poetic. I found it a bit charming and a whole lot disconcerting. — Juliet Blackwell

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard

Shake those stars from your hair, pretty Moonchild. It's time to dance with the noonday sun! — Jaeda DeWalt

The woman I was yesterday, introduced me to the woman I am today; which makes me very excited about meeting the woman I will become tomorrow. — Poetic Evolution

a single poem
the thing that can keep me
light on my feet,
when my soul is
heavy with sorrow. — Sanober Khan

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. — Damien Hirst

Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere? — Diablo Cody

She wandered off into the shadows, carrying her bucket and dragging her shadow like a bridal veil. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The true poetic urge is the desire for absolute freedom. — Marty Rubin

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. — Luis Barragan

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American. — Joan Didion

I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once. — Maggie Stiefvater

I think all those ancient prophecies are so full of poetic nonsense that half the time no one understands what they mean." ~ Helen — Josephine Angelini

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read.
They taught me I had a language in heaven
and another language on earth. — Mahmoud Darwish

Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere. — Andrea Barrett

There is no art without a poetic aim. — Edouard Vuillard

For now, bread and mead call us, appetites whetted, to witness what I have been nursing, encased in iron, licked by flame, and tended with relish. — Kevin Hearne

Don't strive to sound poetic. Strive to sound genuine in your writing and you will find poetry in the most mundane things in life. — Bobby Hundley

When you deserved it, even the mail could rape you. — Wally Lamb

Just the opposite for me, all is drowned in poetic impression; I am ready for all concessions. Suddenly — Jean-Paul Sartre

A kiss before he went to murder.
Poetic. Or plain terrifying. — V. Theia

The months fall to shards at my feet. — Lauren DeStefano

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. — Wislawa Szymborska

Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final. — Elizabeth Bowen

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license. — Michael Franks

The poetic does not misrepresent the speech one half so much as the speech misrepresents the soul. — G.K. Chesterton

Now he must put into practice all his fine poetic thoughts about romantic love. — Philip Zaleski

I wonder who else in the world was having such an exquisite dawn. — Hope Jahren

when whispered
what an exquisite
song, it makes-
your name. — Sanober Khan

As she walked, clock towers across Prague started arguing midnight, and the long, fraught Monday came at last to a close. — Laini Taylor

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe. — Ernst Haas

Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams. — William Cowper

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. — Eugenio Montale

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. — Marguerite Young

He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back. — Carolyn Kizer

I sent my words out onto the wind
to paths unseen and parts unknown
in hopes people will enjoy
this book of poetic words I've sown — Charles Johnson

Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow. — Matthea Harvey

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. — Max Eastman

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image. — Rachel Kushner

I make sacrifices in reward of trinkets for my gilded cage. — Solange Nicole

some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

and some things will only
... live in poems. — Sanober Khan

Capes are the poetic points of continents. They are the summits of our sailing souls. — Kaci Cronkhite

The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back. — George R R Martin

Why can't prose be poetic? — Kevin Focke

It was like I'd stepped out into an afterlife. Only there were no angels. — Lucy Christopher

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. — Harold Bloom

There's something poetic about the fact that the first boy to ever ask for my number is the same boy I'm going to die with. — Jasmine Warga

The Bible may be an arresting and
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins

..Breaking yet budding,
dying yet living - standing
amongst ruins and rage,
reaching for possibilities
playing hard to get. — Meraaqi

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised. — NoViolet Bulawayo

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art. — David Mamet

The clouds took on the shape of dancers; from somewhere far off, Pram heard music before the clouds became normal again. — Lauren DeStefano

In the fall, she knew it was Death who sweetened the apples. — Martine Leavitt

I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars. — Raymond Chandler

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson

How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic moment or romantic bone in O-Dog's body. — Larenz Tate

We know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful. — Gene Stratton-Porter

My secrets must be poetic to be believable. — Mick Jagger

In the end it wasn't death or terror that shattered them. It was someone else's love. How poetic. — Kelsey Sutton

Poetic passion leaps from the depths of the soul to ignite the world... — Akilah Shabazz

No non-poetic account of reality can be complete. — John Myhill

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. — Steven Spielberg

Yes," Bernarde quipped, "Deal with me, Jean Luc. Come and dance with the night, brother. Let us battle 'till the sun turns us to ash. — Katerina Martinez

Scatter as a prayer
escaping my lips...

as orchids
blooming in clouds. — Sanober Khan

One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy. — Dan Savage

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it. — Multatuli

I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just air? Is my heart easy to spare? — Jessica Sorensen

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

Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination. — Alister E. McGrath

All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation. — Hans Sachs

I am lover of words ... I am wickedly drunk with the magic of words ... the poetic nature whispers through and to my very heart and soul. — Jennifer Hillman

A poet's function . . . is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others. — Ryan Holiday

My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't. — Bernardo Bertolucci