Poesy Quotes

.....I'm certain I asked for a cowboy one December past--
For I wanted the excitement of pioneers to last;
I ached to sing with a fiddle, speak with a drawl and twang;
I surely requested John Wayne to be part of my gang.

Of course I dreamed of a cowboy in those Yuletides of yore--
For I wanted that ace, that corral fighter, that scout roar;
I ached for the authentic frontier hero of the West;
I surely requested the sacred battleground's finest.

I did pray Santa'd give me a cowboy some time ago--
For I wanted a legend in denim wrangler for beau;
I ached to be rounded up safely by my saddled knight;
I surely requested I be prospected, mined, settled right...


-----excerpted from the poem 'A Cowboy For Christmas' in the book FROM GUAM TO CROWN CITY CORONADO (THANKS TO HERMANN, MISSOURI): A JOURNEY IN POESY, by Mariecor Ruediger ~ Mariecor Ruediger

As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I think denim is something everyone feels comfortable in. It's kind of my uniform, really. ~ Clemence Poesy

Once I caught my dad in front of the TV watching a tennis match, and I realized they were tricking us. Poor guy, he had to sneak in a tennis final - probably the French Open. ~ Clemence Poesy

I knew fashion was going to be part of my job, so I thought I might as well have fun with it. ~ Clemence Poesy

Many are poets, but without the name;
For what is Poesy but to create
From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim
At an external life beyond our fate,
And be the new Prometheus of new men,
Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,
Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain ~ George Gordon Byron

Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York. ~ Clemence Poesy

I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave. ~ Clemence Poesy

Actresses are so spoilt - we have someone who does our hair for us on set, so we don't know how to do it ourselves in real life. I know how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, but that's about it! ~ Clemence Poesy

I just love a girl in a hat. It's really sexy. ~ Clemence Poesy

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best. ~ Clemence Poesy

He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen. ~ Plato

I've been wearing jeans all my life. I remember my first denim as a kid because my mum used to buy me OshKosh overalls. ~ Clemence Poesy

Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men. ~ James Russell Lowell

The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once. ~ Jean Paul

I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself. ~ Clemence Poesy

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume. ~ Clemence Poesy

I can wait for film projects without having to do things to live. ~ Clemence Poesy

There are very few actresses who can grow old and still get exciting parts ... I think it's very important for me to have wider horizons, rather than just waiting for calls. ~ Clemence Poesy

My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s. ~ Clemence Poesy

I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time. ~ Clemence Poesy

Ay, Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. ~ William Shakespeare

For Poesy alone can tell her dreams,
With the fine spell of words alone can save
Imagination from the sable charm
And dumb enchantment. Who alive can say,
'Thou art no Poet may'st not tell thy dreams?'
Since every man whose soul is not a clod
Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved
And been well nurtured in his mother tongue.
Whether the dream now purpos'd to rehearse
Be poet's or fanatic's will be known
When this warm scribe my hand is in the grave. ~ John Keats

I'm always so impressed with these actresses with their perfect make up and hair and sometimes I'm very aware that I'm not like that. But I don't think I can do things any other way. I would be wearing a disguise if I started to apply that stuff. ~ Clemence Poesy

The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well. ~ Clemence Poesy

Life went a-maying
With Nature, Hope, and Poesy,
When I was young! ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed. ~ John Keats

How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian. ~ William Davenant

When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life. ~ Clemence Poesy

We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art; but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning. ~ Michel De Montaigne

I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric. ~ Allen Ginsberg

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There's a kind of amateurishness among French actresses, but I don't share that completely. ~ Clemence Poesy

I had starred in TV movies without much artistic value. They gave me a certain range. I knew that I was going to continue my studies, but I wanted to try something else on the side. I wanted to see what would come of it. ~ Clemence Poesy

An actor alone is a bit naked. Like when you do something in front of your mirror, you're usually really bad, because you're looking at yourself. ~ Clemence Poesy

To me, performing means trying to do the most you can with the partner in front of you, with the story you're telling. There are actors who have carried me, who have brought me elsewhere or with them. ~ Clemence Poesy

I believe you have to make things happen. ~ Clemence Poesy

What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy ... should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth. ~ Margaret Fuller

I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic. ~ Clemence Poesy

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy. ~ Abraham Cowley

I'm not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is the way people look when they are lost in thought, when their face becomes angry or serious, when they bite their lip, the way they glance, the way they look down when they walk, when they are alone and smoking a cigarette, when they smirk, the way they half smile, the way they try and hold back tears, the way when their face says they want to say something but can't, the way they look at someone they want or love ... I love the way people look when they do these things. It's ... beautiful. ~ Clemence Poesy

I'm always curious about anyone who has enough passion to go onstage and say, 'This is what I'm really passionate about.' It's always worth listening to. ~ Clemence Poesy

I feel like I'm extremely normal. I do have a bizarre face that's a bit out of proportion. I guess that's why some people see me as strange. ~ Clemence Poesy

I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial. ~ Clemence Poesy

The lilac moon came high an altitude from mine to clasp its beauty,yet next to my bosom hide, lies she,like ten thousand silver moons illumine;and her soul's music showered words as she spoke wide. ~ Nithin Purple

I wanted to draw and do costumes. I was prepared to train for that, but I needed something to do on my time off from high school, so I called an agent without telling anyone and started working with her. ~ Clemence Poesy

I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day. ~ Clemence Poesy

If I ever get married myself, it'll be in jeans. ~ Clemence Poesy

There'll be the lightning bugs with their Morse code display,
And shooting stars and constellations to befriend;
The dragonflies will keep us from going astray,
As we search for new adventures 'round every bend.
-excerpted from the poem 'The Huge Playroom that is Nature' in the book FROM GUAM TO CROWN CITY CORONADO (THANKS TO HERMANN, MISSOURI): A JOURNEY IN POESY ~ Mariecor Ruediger

I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire '70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything - I thought I was really cool. But it's good to experiment - I even had dreadlocks at one point. ~ Clemence Poesy

Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail. ~ James Russell Lowell

My mother kept alive the best part for my sister and me. At the same time, she's always been someone who's very straight and solid, which wasn't that -common in families with "'68er" parents. ~ Clemence Poesy

There is no moment where you can rest and think: 'Wonderful, I have that job now. I'm going to spend five years here.' There's a constant judgment on your work that's very strongly related to what you are. ~ Clemence Poesy

I never hire a stylist. ~ Clemence Poesy

A drainless shower
Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power;
'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm. ~ John Keats

In Los Angeles, you feel like everything revolves around the movies. In Paris, you still have other things to do. ~ Clemence Poesy

I believe a lot in the relationship between performers. When you're supported by someone's eyes, you're not alone. ~ Clemence Poesy

I have never been able to make out," I began, "why women are so shy about being caught reading poetry.
We men--lawyers, mechanics, or what not--may well feel ashamed. If we must read poetry, it should be at dead of night, within closed doors. But you women are so akin to poesy. The Creator Himself is a lyric poet, and Jayadeva must have practised the divine art seated at His feet. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

For me, it's about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you're trying too hard and I don't think that actually makes you look good ... I've known from very early on that I don't look perfect. ~ Clemence Poesy