Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I came to writing mysteries through poetry and still think that a well-constructed mystery is very much like a well-constructed sonnet. Both… — Margaret Maron Copy Share Image
I like ghosts. I like friends. I like couplets. I like the idea of a mission. — Dara Wier Copy Share Image
Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For the hundredth time tonight, I’m back with Lulu, on Jacques’s barge, the improbably named Viola. She’d just toldme the story of… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually… — David Ives Copy Share Image
There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness… — W. H. Murray Copy Share Image
It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
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