Poetic License Quotes

• A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Novelists, Poetic, License

  Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.269, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.

  Tennessee Williams

  Memories, Heart, Emotional

  Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.143, New Directions Publishing

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• I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dying, Understood, Mere

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• America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

  Azar Nafisi

  America, Vision, Happens

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• Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humor, Perfection, Genius

  Thomas Carlyle (1825). “Carlyle's Works ...”

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• He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.

  Milton Berle

  Writing, Poetic, License

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• The freedom of poetic license.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Freedom, Poetry, Poetic

  "Pro Publio Sestio". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Section 6), 56 BC.

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• I wrote an article not so long ago that was published in the Los Angeles Times, and I think I titled it "Movies vs. History." But I think they had another title for it. I got sort of sick and tired of seeing movies that got picked apart by people because they had taken dramatic or poetic license and I said "These people don't understand the distinctions."

  Nicholas Meyer

  Taken, Tired, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.

  Craig Ferguson

  Thinking, Should Have, People

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• Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

  Steven Spielberg

  Historical, Lists, Schindler

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 17, 2002.

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• Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

  Christopher Plummer

  People, Poetic, License

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• Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I've tried to make stuff up it just kind of falls flat. So the majority of my work is something that happened to me, I saw happen to someone else, or a friend of mine told me happened. There is a certain amount of theatrical and poetic license. People are supposed to like it, that's why you're doing it. It's supposed to be fun. It's not brain surgery, it's heart surgery. They're just songs.

  Guy Clark

  Song, Fun, Fall

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• Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Giving, Doe, Paralyzed

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• New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.

  Theo James

  New York, Real, Jargon

  "From Turkish Corpse to New York Cop" by Jeremy Egner, www.nytimes.com. February 15, 2013.

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• I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

  Michael Franks

  Writing, Amount, Poetic

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• With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that events been conflated and that liberties have been taken, characters ditto, dates rearranged. But people don't seem to understand that movies are fictions, they are dramatizations, at least historical movies, and we should accord the moviemakers some of the same understanding and latitude. When you go to a movie you know it's a dramatization and not history.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Taken, Character, Historical Novels

  Source: collider.com

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