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Poetic
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
— William Ernest Henley
The greatest minds felt what you feel, and found their way through. Now let their words find you every day, on your home and lock screen.
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The Widget
Beautiful words,
always already there.
A line, wherever you look
One line, at the right moment, can change a whole day. Poetic lives on your home and lock screen, with no app to open and no feed to chase.
Designed by you
Choose the topics that move you, the fonts that feel like you, the backgrounds you love. Shape every widget until your home and lock screen are unmistakably your own.
As often as you like
Give each design its own rhythm: a single line once a day, six or twelve times, or a fresh one every hour. You set the pace.
Made yours
Dress the words
in your own light.
Marble and misty mountains, cherry blossom and aurora sky. Choose from a curated collection of themes, and pair the perfect backdrop to every verse, on every surface, in every mood.
Follow what moves you
Twelve themes of the human heart.
Windows of Light
Let the right words
find you.
Choose the times, the days, and how often their words reach you. A stanza from Whitman at dawn, a line of Rumi at dusk, words with the weight to change your morning, never an interruption. You decide when the light comes in.
- ❦Plan each window down to the hour
- ❦Choose the exact days you want them
- ❦Pick any topics you want to hear from
- ❦Set exactly how many arrive in each window
Your Library
Great minds collected.
Your mind expressed.
Come to understand life through the greatest books ever written. From Confucius to Nietzsche, Aurelius to Keats, read them not in fragments but in full, cover to cover. Gathered by hand and always on your shelf. Never invented, never manufactured, only words that have already stood the test of time.
Every line comes straight from the source. We devote ourselves to seeking each one out by hand, word for word, exactly as it was written, so that what reaches you is never a summary and never an imitation, but the true art itself, the very soul of the work laid open before you. Thousands of real lines from the greatest minds who ever lived, chosen one by one and kept just for you.
Gathered by hand · Public domain
In every line
What one line can do.
To motivate you
Everything you need to feel unstoppable, one line at a time. The fuel to keep going, and to become everything you know you can be.
To inspire you
The spark to dream bigger, reach further, and imagine a life without limits. A reminder that all of it is possible, and closer than you think.
To ground you
The calm and strength to rise above anything and meet the world head-on. A steady confidence to face whatever comes, and rise every time.
To name what you feel
The words to finally understand yourself, and know you were never alone. The comfort of a feeling someone captured perfectly, long before it was yours.
Defined
po·et·ic
/pōˈedik/ · adjective
Having a quality of beauty, and an intensity of emotion.
You’ve always felt the world more deeply than most. You simply never had the words for it.
We are each living out a story, composing a novel line by line, a poem only we can write. To be poetic is to live it as the main character of that story. It is to feel more, to live more, to be more in this world. It is to find beauty in everything, the joy and the pain alike, and to come away not smaller but stronger for it. Poetic makes that a daily practice, bringing the greatest minds who ever lived into your day, so you feel more deeply, and live more boldly.
This is Poetic
Be Poetic.
Words that move you.
Words that are you.
Questions, feedback, or a line that moved you?
Whether you have a question, a bit of feedback, or an idea to share, write to us directly and a real person will answer. And if a quote has ever moved you that we don’t yet carry, send it our way. We would love to add it to the app for the whole community to find.
The last word
Read deeply.
Live fully.
The greatest words came from lives well lived. Now go, live yours, and let the right ones find you along the way.
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