Couplet Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny…
— Tom Morello
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But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect.…
— Rosanne Cash
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a…
— Alexander Pope
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The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that…
— Sherman Alexie
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They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean?…
— Black Francis
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Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart…
— David Ogilvy
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For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like…
— Adam Gopnik
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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 double happiness and…
— Gayle Forman
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This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an answer. The first…
— James Fenton
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LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at…
— Ambrose Bierce
Who Wrote These Couplet Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Couplet Quotes as follows: