Couplets Quotes

17 quotes by 17 authors

I like ghosts. I like friends. I like couplets. I like the idea of a mission. — Dara Wier
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
I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power… — W H Murray
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
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
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
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English,… — David Ives
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
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
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
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
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I… — Charles de Lint
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr.… — Neil Gaiman
There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs… — Tom Stoppard
The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact,… — Maureen Johnson
For the hundredth time tonight, Iâ€™m back with Lulu, on Jacquesâ€™s barge, the improbably named Viola. Sheâ€™d just toldme the story of double happiness and… — Gayle Forman
Like a poem poorly written we are verses out of rhythm, couplets out of rhyme in syncopated time. — Simon And Garfunkel

Who Wrote These Couplets Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 17 Couplets Quotes as follows: