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- 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… — Bill Nighy
- Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Libba Bray
- she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to… — Haruki Murakami
- In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s… — Madeleine L'Engle
- To break the pentameter, that was the first heave — Ezra Pound
- The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a… — James Fenton