I would the gods had made thee poetical. [ William Shakespeare ]

To the poetic mind all things are poetical. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction. [ Hazlitt ]

As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable. [ Hazlitt ]

An uncommon degree of imagination constitutes poetical genius. [ Dugald Stewart ]

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest. [ Goldsmith ]

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative, but is the death of poetical invention. [ Shenstone ]

Humour is properly the exponent of low things; that which first renders them poetical to the mind. [ Carlyle ]

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology. [ Hare ]

There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers, that now and then, from the influence of mood or circumstances, reasserts itself like the reminiscence of childhood, or the spell of love. [ H. T. Tuckerman ]

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid. [ Willmott ]

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration. [ Leigh Hunt ]