Next time Quote by Annie Finch

You can tell when someone is reading the lines of a song or performing it.

— G-Eazy

“In the manner of one recognizing a line from a familiar poem in a strange book.”

— Neil Gaiman

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech…

— Edward Hirsch

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

— Margaret Atwood

“Matt smirked. “Well, it is interesting because lots of poems have mathematical imagery or structure. Concrete triangular poems and syllabic verse, for example. Did…

— Jessica Park

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

— Dexter Gordon

The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure…

— James Fenton

“The text, in its mass, is comparable to a sky, at once flat and smooth, deep, without edges and without landmarks; like the soothsayer…

— Roland Barthes

“Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance.”

— Alexandra Katehakis

The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions.

— Mike Svob

“Lineation can make your break your poems.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer