Just Quote by John Drinkwater Download Open image “Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.” — John Drinkwater ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Just Long Perfectly Poe Poem Poetry Saying Sequence Short
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Poetry vs. Prose One difference of course is the length of the line. And some people suppose that prose doesn’t rhyme. But I have… — Daniel Klawitter Copy Share Image
So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel. — James Wright Copy Share Image
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Some shows just go away - and that's fine. They serve their purpose and their entertainment value, but there are shows that touch people… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I… — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
