Top 21 Quotes About Poetic License
#1. - I used to love you.
- What's changed?
- You.
- No. Now you see me. That's all.
Sarah Kane
#2. New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.
Theo James
#4. These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world.
John E. Walker
#5. My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
Candace Parker
#6. A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.
Jerzy Kosinski
#8. I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.
Craig Ferguson
#9. Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
Christopher Plummer
#11. He calls me desperate (on my tombstone)
I hope poetic license will allow: HUNGRY
Eli Coppola
#12. To fully express their feelings, women assume poetic license and use various superlatives, metaphors, and generalizations. Men mistakenly take these expressions literally. Because they misunderstand the intended meaning, they commonly react in an unsupportive manner.
John Gray
#14. He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.
Milton Berle
#15. The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes,
The meadow creeps implacable and still;
A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies.
One two three the cows bulge on the hill.
Allen Tate
#16. The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
Tennessee Williams
#18. Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.
C. Kennedy
#19. Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.
Steven Spielberg
#20. I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.
Michael Franks
#21. When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
John Irving