Verse Form Quotes

Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

I'm really into poetry.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

Emily Dickinson seems rather tame because she pretty much uses the same meter every time. It's called 'common meter.' It's a line of four beats that's followed by a line of three beats.

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.

The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.

Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry, which came down through oral tradition.

I don't write things that are wildly abstractly atonal.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

I'm only interested in poetry.

Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art.

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

Poetry is this gorgeous, complex history rendered in verse and song, a blueprint that can lead you back into the world after you've walked into air.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill it. And you have to find how to make that form say what you want to say. But what you find, always--I think any poet who's worked in form will agree with me--is that the form leads you to what you want to say.

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.