Poetical Quotes

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. - Oscar Wilde

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

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. - William Hazlitt

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. - Edgar Allan Poe

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me. - Isaac Rosenberg

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest. - Oliver Goldsmith

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nature never wears a mean appearance. When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense of mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. - Thomas Babington Macaulay