poetize

Example Sentences

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He had been touched with the prevailing romanticism; he had written hymns like Manzoni, and, like Carrer, he sought to poetize the traditions and superstitions of his countrymen.

From Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions by Howells, William Dean

From the puppet craze well on into his precocious university life it was his passion to explore the widest ranges of experience and then to reflect, moralize, or poetize upon them.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

You paint with the chisel and poetize with the brush.

From Old Fritz and the New Era by Langley, Peter

The episodes, and the hard characters, and the partly imaginary characters, you had 246 your liberty in; and you have used them well to suffuse and flavor and poetize the story.

From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Now thus to poetize the tragedy of one's own life is fatuous; it is like enjoying one's dizziness on the brink of a precipice, or the pangs of sickness without seeking a remedy.

From The Moral Economy by Perry, Ralph Barton