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Stanza Quotes by Alexander Pope
- 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…
- 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,…
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- Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem. — James Fenton
- Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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