Noun
license used by a writer or artist to heighten the effect of their work
Source: WordNetThe freedom of poetic license. Cicero
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. Gabriel García Márquez
I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps. Craig Ferguson
does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed. Orhan Pamuk
The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. Tennessee Williams
I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license. Michael Franks