I'm very fond of the Fourth World series, and even enjoy the aspect of them that is most often mocked, Kirby's peculiar writing style, which to my ears at least has a kind of vatic poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comics Comics] Reference

Non-vatic though I am, that looks like a good omen to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [What’s the News from Basra?] Reference

Rolling from the personal to the historical, the vatic to the domestic, this is not an easy play to bring off.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Dance; Love Story; Joe Turner's Come and Gone] Reference

To others, he is an impene-trable, loquacious charlatan, a mystificateur pouring forth vatic, rapturous tautologies.    From Wordnik.com.  [enowning] Reference

Ginsberg was the kind of poet who needed to get rolling, to feel the vatic, ecstatic surge of image and inspiration buoy him up.    From Wordnik.com.  [(New to) Great Regulars: Laid next to one another, poems] Reference

"When the Ship Comes In" is as good an example as any, I suppose; Dylan in his vatic mode, descrying the shape of the coming day.    From Wordnik.com.  [When The Ship Comes In] Reference

The contemporary poet has largely eschewed any claim to the “vatic,” a mantle many poets a generation or three ago aspired to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetry and Prophecy : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

The line of vision thus passes from the ancient embodiment of female vatic power to the modern imagination, coming to reside in the author.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paley, "Apocalypse Without Millennium"] Reference

So obscure, so mystifying, so all-encompassing is Heidegger's Being that, his vatic pretensions notwithstanding, it leaves nothing to interpret but other interpretations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

An introduction of that kind can hardly help being at least a little pronunciamental (and in her photograph on the dust cover of the Oxford book Byatt looks positively vatic).    From Wordnik.com.  [Letting Go] Reference

For all these years he had been gloating in all things written about him as if none of it were critical or vatic; and it had never occurred to him that perhaps, by behaving so, he was making himself ridiculous.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference

But the stylised dialogue, the vatic tone accompanying the spare plot, the supernatural machinery, the bizarre reversals of fortune, and the hyperbolic descriptions of setting all contribute to astonish the normal expectations that a reader brings to prose fiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Schwarz 1 - Criticism - Critical Contexts] Reference

This week's quotation to argue about, from James Wood, The Broken Estate: ...to oppose D.H. Lawrence's critics, one should say that he is precise and not only rhapsodic, that he is a practical writer as well as a vatic one, that he has superb powers not only of visual metaphor and visual concretion but an almost abstract delight in adjectives and adverbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [grahamsleight's Journal] Reference

He stood on the threshold of a new age, and he cast his vatic gaze across it much in the same spirit as we are trying to do to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Diversions of a Man of Letters] Reference

In the Manhattan neighborhood I grew up in, the correlative for the priestess talking with the vatic utterances was the psychotherapist.    From Wordnik.com.  [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference

It appears probable that the hot water of the springs, at an early period, had all issued from its grand reservoir in the hill, at a nana grettar ck vatic a than at uns eat, Taeeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States : with an appendix containing important state papers and public documents, and all the laws of a public nature; with a copious index; compiled from authentic materials] Reference

In a 1963 interview, Saul Bellow harshly accused Salinger of making up "a Rousseauian critique of society which comes from the vatic judgment of the immature," but if so, the times were ripe for such a critique.    From Wordnik.com.  [openDemocracy] Reference

Here is a young poet learning to find the vatic in the ordinary, often by looking a little awry at the world, as in "How to Get Back to Chester," when he describes the "greasy moon floating/like a tire over the highway.".    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

Unfrequented, the pda cell phone submerged burdenless vatic prominence of meantime to savageness that masochistically was inhabited on the nutritionally of murine and lignin, blankly quantifiability the gillespie monophysite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

But I would argue that he is actually more successful in his vatic vocation when he is in the pastoral mode, for the deliberate lowliness of his shepherds is accessible to those of us who lack the prowess of a Britomart or an Artegall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shepheardes Calendar] Reference

Time is the vatic lining of the popular soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time] Reference

But his simple speech hid vatic power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference

1965, cruise control for automobiles in 1970, and the first all-sputtered photo vatic cell for solar energy in 1974.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

As vatic as the Vatican.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

But yet, I am a vatic one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Bloom additionally points out that "Large Red Man Reading," the second poem Vendler discusses, as well contains allusions to Emerson, who also saw the poet's job as writing the "poem of life," was also concerned with the "vatic" power of the poet, but again it is difficult to imagine that either Emerson or Stevens conceived of this "earthly giant of vital being" (Vendler's words) as a "scholar" of the modern kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Study] Reference