Unpoetic Quotes

#1. When you die I bet you want real life, pure real life, eulogies that are unpoetic and messy, smeared with tears and truisms, cliched as hell, the kind of stuff a person means.

Kate Hattemer

#2. In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting.

Charlie Chaplin

#3. A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides where the lines should end. This dreary-sounding definition, unpoetic to a fault, may well turn out to be the best we can do.

Terry Eagleton

#4. Yeah, whatever," I said finally, the two most unpoetic words in the English language.

Emma Scott

#5. Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism ... the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

Ezra Pound

#6. Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. Honey can prevent seasonal allergies, heal a cut, soothe a burn, and get rid of your pimples. Miles

Wendy Mass

#8. I'm not an idiot.

Amy Winehouse

#9. Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Albert Camus

#10. You got to look nice. If you got 10 kids, they'll talk about you if you don't look nice.

George Foreman

#11. If I had a spouse and two kids to support I certainly would not be telling 'jokes' like he was doing at a conference.

Jon Ronson

#12. I think I'm a tiny bit like Harry 'cos I'd like to have an owl. Yeah, that's the tiny bit, actually.

Daniel Radcliffe