Faulty as it is, he decides it as by far his special and entire self-chosen poetic utterance.
You lot out there in the auditorium - you check with Gilman in the lobby for the poetic utterance; he's probably got the mysteriousness all formulated by now.
Shakespeare for Berlioz represented the summit of poetic utterance, with the bard's veracity of dramatic expression and freedom from formal constraints resounding in the composer's spirit.
Technically, it is an instance of minni "remembrance", a poetic utterance honouring the gods at the beginning of a sumbel (ritual drinking).
Settings of aphoristic poetic utterances, the songs are accompanied by a very large orchestra.
I quoted this line independently of the plot, as a poetic utterance, a formulation of the mysteriousness we all feel at the heart of the character and the play.
But although generally weak in poetic utterance, the play has a few strong scenes of dramatic conflict, especially father versus son and half-brother against half-brother.
Because of this, a poetic utterance has no functional ties with the real context in which it is produced and cannot be assumed to refer to any aspect of its producer's existence.
On the extension of a theory of speech acts to cover poetic utterance: Speech Acts and Poetry in Analysis, 2010, 70, pp.
Another character was Eric the Gardener, a Wiltshireman inclined to speak in gnomic, poetic utterances and non sequiturs.