What is poetic?

More definitions of "poetic":

• (adj): Of or relating to poetry.
  Example: "Poetic works"; "a poetic romance"
  Synonyms: poetical

• (adj): Characterized by romantic imagery.
  Example: "Turner's vision of the rainbow...was poetic"

• (adj): Characteristic of or befitting poetry.
  Example: "Poetic diction"
  Synonyms: poetical

Famous quotes containing the word poetic:

“I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It’s listed as part of the poetic training, you know.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call “history” by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World history ... only comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)

“Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.”
—Giambattista Vico (1688–1744)