Language Quote by John Kinsella Download Open image “For me, the measure of a poem is the word, not the line.” — John Kinsella ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Lines Literature Measure Measure Poem Poem Poem Word Poetry Word Line
The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable. — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done… — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is still a… — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere. Which is… — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change. — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon 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 am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
![“If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere. Which is just another example of a wave of artistic endeavour that changes. It reaches a certain point, learn from what its done and move on. We seemed to have picked up on that.” quote by John Kinsella](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/416/john-kinsella-54512_artistic_if-you-stand-back-and-look-at-it-in-a-gl_2409544.jpg)
