Top 43 Quotes About Poetics

#1. A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.

Joshua Cohen

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#2. The unspeakable visions of the individual.

Jack Kerouac

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#3. The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to act in his place. The spectator frees himself; he thinks and acts for himself! Theatre is action!

Augusto Boal

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#4. I should like my house to be similar to that of the ocean wind, all quivering with gulls.

Rene Cazelles

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#5. Flashlight beams danced crazily

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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#6. To Wallace Stevens' post-Nietzschean formula 'God and the imagination are one,' these women poets would add a crucial third element: God and the imagination and my body are one.

Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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#7. All good poems are victories over something.

Stephen Dunn

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#8. at man's height the mouth utters its cries, tosses forth its oracles, gives vent to its puns. To allow words to come to life, bare themselves, and show us by chance, for the space of a lightning bolt bony with dice, a few of our reasons for living and dying

Michel Leiris

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#9. [W]andering creates the desert.

Edmond Jabes

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#10. Midway between the too soiled ground and the too-sublime vaults, at the level of the air, entering the skin of the role, poetry plays its game.

Michel Leiris

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#11. In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.

Floyd Skloot

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#12. Haters, I'm not your enemy I'm your hero. Cheer up, you should be happy I'm here

Nicki Minaj

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#13. I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.

Cate Marvin

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#14. Tonight I see no spheres, but project myself
and gaze back, an important trick
because the goal is to be on both sides of the poem,
shuttling between the you and I.

Ben Lerner

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#15. When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.

Wislawa Szymborska

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#16. The genuine artist, Harris is saying, finds reality in a point of identity between subject and object, a point at which the created world and the world that is really there become the same thing. [p.211]

Northrop Frye

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#17. And the beautiful lady, still with her beautiful wasp's waist, the very beautiful lady whose charms buzz around our childish dreams, will not turn to cigar smoke when the North Star appears.

Michel Leiris

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#18. When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things.

Ken Burns

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#19. It's your privilege to find me incomprehensible. I gave you my minutes; let them remain ours. I hope I haunt you.

Theodore Roethke

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#20. The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

Lyn Hejinian

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#21. The next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage sounds, scan it. The odds are that it will fall into a regular metrical pattern.

Annie Finch

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#22. My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee ... and the poetics of his paintings.

Renzo Piano

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#23. With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.

Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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#24. There is a paradox in fiction that was first noticed by Aristotle in the Poetics. We are drawn to fiction because fiction gives us pleasure. But most of what is actually in fiction is deeply unpleasant: threat, death, despair, anxiety, Sturm und Drang.

Jonathan Gottschall

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#25. O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

Quintus Ennius

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#26. By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them ...

Steve Earle

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#27. Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte. (More recent poets put a lot of water in the ink.)
Goethe: Aus Makariens Archiv. Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre. III 18

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#28. I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed

Blixa Bargeld

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#29. The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.

Aaron Sorkin

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#30. Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

Steve Earle

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#31. What a dynamic, handsome object is a path! How precise the familiar hill paths remain for our muscular consciousness! Oh, my roads and their cadence.

Gaston Bachelard

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#32. Each young person is a poet of sorts, trying to sort out the poetics of their inner life and its relation to the great world around it. Each elder is a philosopher of sorts, trying to sort out the meanings and gleanings of a life as well as the necessary implications of the presence of death.

Michael Meade

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#33. (She catches sight of herself in the mirror. Go in fear of hyperbole)

Ann Lauterbach

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#34. I may want to sleep with Miss America, but I have no wish to hear her talk about herself and her family.

W. H. Auden

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#35. Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Octavio Paz

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#36. Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

Howard Nemerov

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#37. What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti.

Tom Robbins

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#38. You really felt a radical shift in the advance of a poetics that had really been engendered by [Walt] Whitman. This was very exciting. I wanted to work in this environment.

Anne Waldman

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#39. The poetics of politics had to be observed.

Tom Clancy

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#40. Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then.

Nicholas Jarecki

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#41. The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Flesh becomes Word.

Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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#42. The sky is not the limit

Jennifer Kathleen Phillips

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#43. For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to.

Anne Waldman

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