Top 79 Poesy Quotes
#2. Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.
James Russell Lowell
#3. Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#4. Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
Abraham Cowley
#5. The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
Jean Paul
#6. How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.
William Davenant
#7. 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
#9. 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
#10. Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like the present,-considerably more scientific than poetical,-science substitutes for the smaller poetry of fiction, the great poetry of truth.
Hugh Miller
#11. 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
#12. He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.
Plato
#13. Many are poets, but without the name;
For what is Poesy but to create
From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim
At an external life beyond our fate,
And be the new Prometheus of new men,
Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,
Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain
George Gordon Byron
#14. Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.
Isaac Watts
#16. 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
#17. Away! away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
John Keats
#19. A drainless shower
Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power;
'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.
John Keats
#20. 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
#21. Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.
Francis Bacon
#22. It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
Plato
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. I think denim is something everyone feels comfortable in. It's kind of my uniform, really.
Clemence Poesy
#27. I constantly make fashion mistakes but I think it's good to take risks.
Clemence Poesy
#28. I knew fashion was going to be part of my job, so I thought I might as well have fun with it.
Clemence Poesy
#29. 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
#30. I'm always so impressed with these actresses with their perfect make up and hair and sometimes I'm very aware that I'm not like that. But I don't think I can do things any other way. I would be wearing a disguise if I started to apply that stuff.
Clemence Poesy
#31. There is no moment where you can rest and think: 'Wonderful, I have that job now. I'm going to spend five years here.' There's a constant judgment on your work that's very strongly related to what you are.
Clemence Poesy
#32. I wanted to draw and do costumes. I was prepared to train for that, but I needed something to do on my time off from high school, so I called an agent without telling anyone and started working with her.
Clemence Poesy
#33. I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action!
Clemence Poesy
#34. To me, performing means trying to do the most you can with the partner in front of you, with the story you're telling. There are actors who have carried me, who have brought me elsewhere or with them.
Clemence Poesy
#35. 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
#36. Actresses are so spoilt - we have someone who does our hair for us on set, so we don't know how to do it ourselves in real life. I know how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, but that's about it!
Clemence Poesy
#37. I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.
Clemence Poesy
#38. For me, it's about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you're trying too hard and I don't think that actually makes you look good ... I've known from very early on that I don't look perfect.
Clemence Poesy
#39. Once I caught my dad in front of the TV watching a tennis match, and I realized they were tricking us. Poor guy, he had to sneak in a tennis final - probably the French Open.
Clemence Poesy
#40. I just wear jeans, big motorcycle boots and T-shirts that are way too big for me. I like anything that has lived a little bit, that has traces of life on it. Knitwear that's a tiny bit too long because you've pulled it with your hands, or jeans that are starting to get holes.
Clemence Poesy
#41. My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s.
Clemence Poesy
#42. I believe a lot in the relationship between performers. When you're supported by someone's eyes, you're not alone.
Clemence Poesy
#43. There are very few actresses who can grow old and still get exciting parts ... I think it's very important for me to have wider horizons, rather than just waiting for calls.
Clemence Poesy
#44. Over-mastered by some thoughts, I yeelded an inckie tribute unto them.
Philip Sidney
#45. To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.
Clemence Poesy
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire '70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything - I thought I was really cool. But it's good to experiment - I even had dreadlocks at one point.
Clemence Poesy
#49. When it comes to photo shoots, there was a clear moment for me when I thought, 'I'm going to have to enjoy this because it's going to be a part of what I do.'
Clemence Poesy
#50. I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.
Clemence Poesy
#52. 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
#53. I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.
Clemence Poesy
#54. 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
#55. When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.
Clemence Poesy
#56. I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.
Clemence Poesy
#57. There's a kind of amateurishness among French actresses, but I don't share that completely.
Clemence Poesy
#58. I have a lot of respect and admiration for someone like Cate Blanchett, find Emma Thompson wonderful, Meryl Streep inspiring, Juliette Binoche full of light and Catherine Deneuve incredible.
Clemence Poesy
#59. You have to encourage people not to give in to the temptation to be normal, even if it isn't easy - because when you're young, you really want to belong.
Clemence Poesy
#61. I can wait for film projects without having to do things to live.
Clemence Poesy
#62. I'm always curious about anyone who has enough passion to go onstage and say, 'This is what I'm really passionate about.' It's always worth listening to.
Clemence Poesy
#63. In Los Angeles, you feel like everything revolves around the movies. In Paris, you still have other things to do.
Clemence Poesy
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.
Clemence Poesy
#67. 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
#69. 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
#71. 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
#72. My mother kept alive the best part for my sister and me. At the same time, she's always been someone who's very straight and solid, which wasn't that -common in families with "'68er" parents.
Clemence Poesy
#73. I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.
Clemence Poesy
#74. 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
#75. Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.
Clemence Poesy
#76. I had starred in TV movies without much artistic value. They gave me a certain range. I knew that I was going to continue my studies, but I wanted to try something else on the side. I wanted to see what would come of it.
Clemence Poesy
#78. I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic.
Clemence Poesy
#79. I feel so lucky that I live in a society that lets women be. I think that's the one of the biggest fights to keep having, is to fight for women to have the right to live their life the way they want to live it.
Clemence Poesy