Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

Musicals are by nature theatrical meaning poetic meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

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

Fables should be taught as fables myths as myths and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

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

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent if he will let it.

The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.