Achieve Quote by Florence King

The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other.…

— James Fenton

The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to…

— Herbert Read

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

— Denis Johnson

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will…

— Charles Baudelaire

“And so it is in poetry also: all this love of curious French metres like the Ballade, the Villanelle, the Rondel; all this increased…

— Oscar Wilde

“If we allow ourselves to be misled by the heresy of paraphrase, we run the risk of doing even more violence to the internal…

— Cleanth Brooks

“If there has been one overriding change in poetic practice, it is that under the influence of free verse the poets have made a…

— Martin Langford

“Lurking behind this connecting silence is a brooding suspicion over the extent to which the perceptual user-preferences of the human animal limit and distort…

— Don Paterson

“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives…

— Alexander Pope

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

— Felix Dennis