Meter Quote by Sherman Alexie

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

— Felix Dennis

I've a poet's sensitivity.

— Dharmendra

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

— Victor Hugo

Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.

— Derek Walcott

I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.

— Thom Gunn

But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm a poet.

— Rajon Rondo

We must listen to poets.

— Gaston Bachelard

“what is poetry, how can I even think of meter, metaphor, as you lie dying, swollen & agonized in your pretty gown”

— Sandra M. Gilbert

To be a poet you have to experiment.

— Matthea Harvey

I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write poetry and…

— Jacqueline Woodson

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

— Mary Webb