Meter Quote by Thom Gunn Download Open image “I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.” — Thom Gunn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Meter Rhyme Rhyming Way
I just like to be great at what I do, and it's just a simple mentality. The hardest part for me is just making… — Inspectah Deck Copy Share Image
I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme. — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
Emceeing has always been about making the most intellectual, most creative, wittiest rhyme as possible regardless of any subject. It was always about bringing… — Gza Copy Share Image
I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape. — Del Shannon Copy Share Image
I'd always written rhymes but I was scared to share them. They stayed on paper or in my head, until I started going to… — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
I knew I had a sharper mind than most others and I had a sense of rhyme. One didn't even need to sing melodies.… — Raftaar Copy Share Image
Sometimes you cant rhyme in everything you say cause you still gotta make sense. — $Teady Copy Share Image
Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing.… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities. — Mary Timony Copy Share Image
I am confident and I work so hard to be confident. If I wasn't talented, then I wouldn't be as confident. — Christian Siriano Copy Share Image
How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
“At worse, one is in motion; and at best, Reaching no absolute, in which to rest, One is always nearer by not keeping still.” — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“…but Zoe, your bitch meter is hitting a twelve. I need you at a six, okay?” — Sherry D. Ficklin Copy Share Image
Voice-acting, on the fun meter, is off the scale. You show up, you don't have to be all primped up, or dressed up. And… — Jason Marsden Copy Share Image
I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning,… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness. — Maurice Bejart Copy Share Image
I like to compare the two to a quarterback and a lineman. Being a brakeman is very physical and success is mostly determined by… — Elana Meyers Copy Share Image
