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Metre Quotes by Derek Walcott
- The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking,…
- Time is the metre, memory the only plot.
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- In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of… — James Clerk Maxwell
- The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves… — Derek Walcott
- Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat. — Michael Hussey
- So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books… — Cees Nooteboom
- For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing… — Aristotle
- For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on… — James Fenton
- I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers. — William Shakespeare
- Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between… — Claude Monet
- Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules. — Gagan Narang
- But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language… — George Edward Woodberry