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Letter "P" » poetical
«I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?»
Author: James Thomson
(Poet)
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elevating, magnificence, philosophical, poetical, sentiment, The Works, variety
«Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!»
Author: Marquis De Custine
(Writer)
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constrain, constraining, deceptive, distrust, dreaded, graceful, influences, poetical, rude, shocks, uncomfortably, vocation
«As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical»
«Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.»
«A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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nursery, poetical, scent
«Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest»
«The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beau»
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