Poetry Quote by Carl McKever Download Open image ““Line by Line, Word by Word, Syllable by Syllable!”” — Carl McKever ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
A line has to have a certain number of syllables, and the next line has to be its mirror image. — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
“One line lands in a word and one word lands in a line and there you have it the secret of poetry” — Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Copy Share Image
“Rhythm. Life is full of it; words should have it, too. But you have to train your ear. Listen to the waves on a… — Arthur Gordon Copy Share Image
At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Can there really be a form of verse where all that counts is the number of syllables in a line? No patterning of stress… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The scrawled letters form words, the words form lines, the lines form a poem. Your eyes scanning across the page give the poem life.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like...first all you have is... A line weaving through your mind Like the tail of a child's kite Unfettered by reason or… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
“In the manner of one recognizing a line from a familiar poem in a strange book.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.” — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
