“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”
Umberto Eco
“I found the absolute thrill of translating ancient poetic text into totally visceral, tangible and even relevant, immediate and urgent language... I was thrilled by Shakespeare. It surprised me, my profound delight in deciphering Shakespeare and making it completely flesh-and-blood.”
Ben Kingsley
“The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou”
“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”
Jean Cocteau
“Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.”
Crispin Glover
“No one could ad lib like Peter. ... You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.”
Barbara Walters
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