poetic license
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Rachel Syme’s foreword to the musical book says that this version of “Ironic” turns it into “an inside joke about poetic license and grammatical errors.”
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2024
“Bedewed it with his tears and bid to it an everlasting adieu” is the stuff of poetic license and bad poetry.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024
“It’s a little bit of poetic license there,” Vicki said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2023
The language of burning is poetic license, or should be: No one wants to eat rice that’s actually been burned.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
“Cake, cake, everywhere, and not a slice for me,” she recited, using her poetic license to make the poem fit her own circumstances more neatly.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
