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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
The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.
— Thomas Bernhard
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
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 areso 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
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
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 poemthe 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
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
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
The poetic does not misrepresent the speech one half so much as the speech misrepresents the soul.
— G.K. Chesterton
when whisperedwhat 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 windto 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 winterswill 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 andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins
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
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
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
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
