Allusion Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

— Joseph Brodsky

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt…

— William Shenstone

Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As…

— William Shenstone

Just because something is melodic or catchy doesn't mean that it doesn't have depth and substance and progressive sensibilities.

— John Petrucci

Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit;…

— Alexander Pope

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

— Vera Wang

I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of the poem.…

— Billy Collins

I'm always looking for poetry's place in the prose. For that moment, let's say, that arrests time, or that sentence in which the musical…

— Jack Driscoll

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other…

— Virginia Woolf

It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

— James Fenton