Iambic Pentameter Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play. — John C. McGinley
• 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 up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that stirs the, um,… — Libba Bray
• In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict… — Madeleine L'Engle
• 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

Who Wrote These Iambic Pentameter Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 9 Iambic Pentameter Quotes as follows:

• 1 Iambic Pentameter Quote by John C. McGinley
• 1 Iambic Pentameter Quote by Bill Nighy
• 1 Iambic Pentameter Quote by David Ogilvy
• 1 Iambic Pentameter Quote by Neil Patrick Harris
• 1 Iambic Pentameter Quote by Howard Nemerov
• 1 Iambic Pentameter Quote by Calvin Trillin
• 1 Iambic Pentameter Quote by Libba Bray
• 1 Iambic Pentameter Quote by Madeleine L'Engle
• 1 Iambic Pentameter Quote by James Fenton