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Stanza Quotes by James Fenton
- 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…
- I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.
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- 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
- 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… — 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… — 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… — James Fenton
- You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear.… — Vikram Seth
- I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem. — James Fenton