Poetry Quote by Quintilian Download Open image “Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.” — Quintilian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Satire
Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you study in the Scripture, the Scripture clearly teaches we're not our own. — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
“It may sound simplistic, but is meant wholeheartedly. We are so privileged to have the Scriptures” — Janette Oke Copy Share Image
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so. — Catullus Copy Share Image
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar! — Moliere Copy Share Image
“In writing are the roots, in writing are the foundations of eloquence; by writing resources are stored up, as it were, in a sacred… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
