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Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.
What inspires me about rap is that it's written in an almost poetic way. I just think it's so cool.
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
I think anyone who follows me knows how I react. It's not always poetic and perfect but neither am I.
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.
Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
Everyone has ways of trying to find a way to memorise our past. There's something very poetic about that.
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
I want to learn how to speak Urdu. I find it very interesting and soothing to ears. It is very poetic too.
Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve.
Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?
The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.
I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
Racism is old, but Peele found a poetic new way of talking about it. He gave us language we didn't know we lacked.
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
First and foremost, I'm an oral storyteller - I'll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time.
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.
A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
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.
They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.
I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free.
I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?
The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.
To me, the most poetic and intelligent way to bring up a subject is by showing very simply who you are and what you believe in.
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk.