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poetize

[poh-i-tahyz] / ˈpoʊ ɪˌtaɪz /


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It is necessary for everyone to poetize his sensations in order to comprehend them.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley

You are the subject now, and, writing you, I well may versify, not poetize: Here needs no fiction: for the graces true And virtues clip not with base flatteries.

From Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock) by J. R. Tutin

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 G. Stanley Hall

They develop exotically, scarce one that does not grow outside its original sphere, assimilate foreign unhistorical matter, blur all chronology, and anachronistically poetize the dim recollections of a historical but long-forgotten underground.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld

They relieve the grossness of the material enjoyments; they poetize the meal; and if you have no women at table, mon cher, be sure to have flowers: not that I object to both together.

From That Boy Of Norcott's by Charles James Lever

The writing itself seems tipsy: It can be energetic, colorful, fun, buzzy, affecting and spot on, but also loose, sloppy, digressive and excessively poetized at moments, veering into nebulous grandiosity.

From New York Times Apr. 17, 2018

A combatant for liberty, Shelley poetized in Queen Mob against kings, priests, commerce, wealth and war; he sought out the reformer, William Godwin, and in due course fell in love with his daughter, Mary.

From Time Magazine Archive

The seeing of his name in print was no longer a novelty and he poetized not quite as steadily.

From The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

The Countess had in the course of time poetized, as I may say, a thing which is at the antipodes to poetry—a manufacture.

From Honorine by Honoré de Balzac

Dante poetized all life and nature as he found them.

From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by George Santayana

Why single out Freud, who, despite his Romantic poetizing about the seething cauldron of the unconscious, was himself a neurological determinist and reductionist?

From Scientific American Jun. 16, 2019

It is machine-made biography, but Ludwig is a facile mechanic, and only errs badly in poetizing, when he seems to write faster than he thinks.

From Time Magazine Archive

For four years he wandered through southern France, now poetizing for his connoisseur-host, Charles of Orleans, in the chateau at Blois, now sleeping in haystacks, once sentenced to death at Orleans.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the manifestation of the growing ill-feeling towards France was not confined to poor but harmless poetizing.

From The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

It treats of poetizing in the vulgar tongue, and of the different dialects of Italy.

From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell




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