poetic

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His entries read like a strange hybrid of laboratory report and poetic comparison.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

His linguistic gifts and poetic sensibility for the English language, then in its infancy, gave his translation a vibrancy, immediacy, charm and clarity that have never been matched.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

The idea that “there will be no victor or vanquished” is not poetic fatalism, it is empirical reality.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026

How poetic that the same arm should deliver both pitches.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Or you might prefer to peek over the shoulder of Shakespeare as he composed his sonnets, and make helpful suggestions regarding the poetic meter.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood