poetic licence BrE
poetic license AmE

Wilde took poetic licence to the extreme, for the true story is much more down to earth.

For this reason we shun poetry and poetic licence in all its forms.

Norway I am sorry if my poetic licence has led to any misrepresentation of what's going on.

"I rely heavily on poetic licence and frequently replace one place name/event/fact with another."

After several days however, with nobody apprehended, the papers indulged in a little poetic licence.

The film is but one version of some horrifying events, and stretched poetic licence to the extreme.

Is this, is this what's known as poetic licence, Bill?

"I wonder if he took poetic licence, or was he truly so noble and beautiful?"

And as for wealth, why, that's poetic licence; or, as you might say, all my eye.

Poetic licence on your part, inference of your own creation and not present in any statement I made myself.

But there is no doubt accepted that there are liberties for artists beyond poetic licence.

Hmmm - a bit (maybe a lot) of poetic licence there, I think.

With poetic licence he described their first meeting:

Folk dance research has shown that this individuality is not merely poetic licence, but genuine features.

When they are applied across the board the results are frequently bizarre, especially as no account whatsoever is taken of poetic licence.

(The incident of the soldier embracing the bomb was poetic licence.)

You can allow James Taylor a little poetic licence on that one, but not in a poem about interstate travel.

A thousand marks at the time would amount to around £56, close enough with poetic licence to £75.

"There is a lot of poetic licence going on, including Meryl's way of talking to colleagues."

Thomas Deloney may have used a little poetic licence to embroider a good yarn.

He knew that Njegoš used poetic licence to create a drama in which he could get his ideas across.

There may have been poetic licence involved, and perhaps it was partly bravado, but there was some truth in the story.

Since I have been a member of the Committee on Culture, I am taking this poetic licence.

Can poetic licence be revoked?

The nearest the afternoon chat here comes to literature is a debate about MPs' poetic licence with their expenses.

We insisted that he check his poetic license at the door.

It goes without saying, we take poetic license with everyone and every story line on the show."

It was poetic license to say, What else can you do?"

Yes, poetic license was used to make the point.

However, with some poetic license, the intent of the name can be considered valid.

Even so, she's more than open to granting the filmmakers poetic license in the looks department.

These lines are considered by many to be merely poetic license, though some people take them literally.

They sent a surge of poetic license up his brain stem.

They are taking some poetic license on their Web site in the heat of battle."

Johnson may have been using poetic license to describe such similar occurrences in the area.

"This is not the time to revoke my poetic license.

Yes, of course: art, poetic license and all that.

The title also refers to any author's need for poetic license and the personal liberty to create art.

As the President arrived in Detroit, he took a bit of poetic license.

Despite or perhaps because of all its poetic license, Italians cannot get enough of the show.

Al- is used by poets to complete the meter of the verse under poetic license.

It is called poetic license for a reason: one has to earn it.

Though the story is loosely based on a true situation, she added, she did use poetic license.

Never mind the possible poetic license she took in adapting it; the recipe is terrific.

The details of the poem often vary from the traditional tale by poetic license.

Those circumstances, in truth, are largely matters of artifice and poetic license.

He may have been speaking with poetic license.

Besides, my reference to a 'body' was just poetic license.

Poetic license aside, you can't have a situation where some packets are more equal than others.

The context is poetic license rather than historical accuracy.