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• 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… — 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… — 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… — Rosanne Cash
• Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song,… — Alexander Pope
• The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or… — 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… — David Ives
• They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages,… — 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… — Black Francis
• Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his… — 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… — Adam Gopnik
• I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but… — Charles de Lint

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