Stanza Quotes

21 quotes by 18 authors

Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a… — Alexander Pope
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.… — Hilaire Belloc
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. — Robert Indiana
Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is… — Sri Yukteswar Giri
In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break… — Joanna Newsom
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a… — A. E. Housman
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length… — James Fenton
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 don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem. — James Fenton
Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza. [ ] but his stanza is not completely empty [ *… — Mark Z. Danielewski
There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never… — Michael Chabon
Madame V begins the lesson by reading aloud the first stanza of a famous French poem: Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur… — Sonya Sones
Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond penning an outline,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan,… — Lord Byron
A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodesâ€” and by a stanza a city is blown to bits. — Vladimir Mayakovsky
The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain,… — Alexander Pope
And again, Subhuti, suppose a woman or a man were to renounce all their belongings as many times as there are grains of sand in… — Buddha

Who Wrote These Stanza Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 21 Stanza Quotes as follows: