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Verse Quotes

The heroes of our youth grow old - ‘the boys of summer in their ruin,’ in Dylan Thomas’s verse - yet we seem the same Picture Quote #1

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme Picture Quote #1

I think participating in GISHWHES is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a fast food restaurant in Shakespearean verse or jump out of airplanes among many other tasks Picture Quote #1

Nearly all children have a feeling for rhythm in words, for the delicate pattern of nursery rhymes. Many adults have lost this feeling and, if they read verse at all, demand a far cruder music than that which they once appreciated Picture Quote #1

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop Picture Quote #1

Then, as a single snowflake flares and flickers upon voicing its final breath, so two eyes make silent conversation with mine. A face as iridescent as candle-fire purls verse and poetry. My eyes read her every intent as a wave of recollections floods my senses Picture Quote #1

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The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse Picture Quote #1

The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it Picture Quote #1

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That’s one of the things you learn not to know Picture Quote #1

If a poem is not memorable, there’s probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable Picture Quote #1

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it’s no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both Picture Quote #1

Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than ‘open form’ or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness Picture Quote #1

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Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks Picture Quote #1

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry Picture Quote #1

To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other Picture Quote #1

On the subject of literary genres, I’ve always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I’d love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story Picture Quote #1

I like to quote the verse, I can do all things through Him who gives me strength. I kind of envision me skiing and God is kind of like an eagle right next to me screeching in my ear that everything is going to be all good. I just try my best and that’s all I can ask for Picture Quote #1

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry Picture Quote #1

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What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose Picture Quote #1

I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well Picture Quote #1

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The heroes of our youth grow old - ‘the boys of summer in their ruin,’ in Dylan Thomas’s verse - yet we seem the same. (Verse Quotes) The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme. (Verse Quotes) I think participating in GISHWHES is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a fast food restaurant in Shakespearean verse or jump out of airplanes among many other tasks. (Verse Quotes) Nearly all children have a feeling for rhythm in words, for the delicate pattern of nursery rhymes. Many adults have lost this feeling and, if they read verse at all, demand a far cruder music than that which they once appreciated. (Verse Quotes) The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop. (Verse Quotes) Then, as a single snowflake flares and flickers upon voicing its final breath, so two eyes make silent conversation with mine. A face as iridescent as candle-fire purls verse and poetry. My eyes read her every intent as a wave of recollections floods my senses. (Verse Quotes) The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse. (Verse Quotes) The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. (Verse Quotes) I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That’s one of the things you learn not to know. (Verse Quotes) If a poem is not memorable, there’s probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable. (Verse Quotes) But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it’s no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. (Verse Quotes) Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than ‘open form’ or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness. (Verse Quotes) Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks (Verse Quotes) I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry. (Verse Quotes) To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other. (Verse Quotes) On the subject of literary genres, I’ve always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I’d love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. (Verse Quotes) I like to quote the verse, I can do all things through Him who gives me strength. I kind of envision me skiing and God is kind of like an eagle right next to me screeching in my ear that everything is going to be all good. I just try my best and that’s all I can ask for. (Verse Quotes) The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry (Verse Quotes) What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose. (Verse Quotes) I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well. (Verse Quotes)

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