Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as… — Horace Copy Share Image
Keats's odes are among my favorite poems ever. As are Neruda's. So yes, I think my poems are odes, though I really… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
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