Iambic Quotes

13 quotes by 11 authors

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot… — Ambrose Bierce
With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play. — John C. McGinley
You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or… — Vikram Seth
I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don't mind other people doing it. I say… — Bill Nighy
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
It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part… — Neil Patrick Harris
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier. — Howard Nemerov
You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I… — Calvin Trillin
What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show upâ€”Ho-HO! Now youâ€™ve got something that stirs the, um,… — Libba Bray
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnetâ€¦There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. Thatâ€™s a very strict… — Madeleine L'Engle
In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd… — James Fenton
The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of… — James Fenton
The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically… — James Fenton

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