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  • verb Present participle of poetize.

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Examples

  • It was a child's instinctive "poetizing" imagination, but the father and mother, while no longer capable, perhaps, of such daring verbal magic, were conscious that they had too often played with the world of fact, and, for the instant at least, remoulded it into something nearer the heart's desire.

    A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

  • Such forms are perhaps best understood as hybrid, a kind of poetizing of philosophy, a sort of reasoning in verse, and therefore forms in which the imagination is not given full exercise.

    An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients John Ogilvie 1772

  • The entire destiny of man, is one heavenly rhythm, just as every work of art is one rhythm, and everything swings from the poetizing lips of god.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Dodie Bellamy 2009

  • The entire destiny of man, is one heavenly rhythm, just as every work of art is one rhythm, and everything swings from the poetizing lips of god.

    Roberto Bedoya, "Flight Recordings" (for Dario Robleto) Dodie Bellamy 2009

  • And thirdly we may count those who, running on far ahead in their poetizing & thinking, belong to another history.

    enowning enowning 2009

  • The poem runs with a fast liquid speed and melody and builds up to the crescendo....the lack of poetizing acts as a great technique as it collapses the chasm between your piece and you as the poet.

    Rejection floreta 2009

  • And thirdly we may count those who, running on far ahead in their poetizing & thinking, belong to another history.

    Archive 2009-01-01 enowning 2009

  • I'm working on poetizing the Canadian copyright, now that they're proposing to ruin it.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • The creative modes of human response already designated by Heidegger in forethinking, namely, poetizing, thinking, building, and dwelling, are all no longer violent, but they are nonetheless, each in its own way, the expression of an enormous power of man.

    Archive 2007-01-01 enowning 2007

  • Any grounding, whether it is in the order of thought, poetizing, creation, leadership, etc., amounts to a remembering-expecting.

    enowning enowning 2007

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