Prosody In Poetry Quotes & Sayings

We say God and the imagination are one ...
How high that highest candle lights the dark. — Wallace Stevens

There's nothing like a bunch of catty teenagers who could either kick your ass halfway across the country or set you on fire with a mere thought. That alone changed who people picked fights with or became friends with. And at the end of the day, it was always good to have a firestarter in your back pocket. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies. — Joan Of Arc

All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer. — Samuel Beckett

The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is. — Erich Fromm

The legend of our times, it has been suggested, might be "The Revenge of Failure". This is what Envy has done for us. If we cannot paint well, we will destroy the canons of painting and pass ourselves off as painters. If we will not take the trouble to write poetry, we will destroy the rules of prosody and pass ourselves off as poets. If we are not inclined to the rigors of an academic discipline, we will destroy the standards of that discipline and pass ourselves off as graduates. If we cannot or will not read, we will say that "linear thought" is now irrelevant and so dispense with reading. If we cannot make music, we will simply make a noise and persuade others that it is music. If we can do nothing at all, why! we will strum a guitar all day, and call it self-expression. As long as no talent is required, no apprenticeship to a skill, everyone can do it, and we are all magically made equal. Envy has at least momentarily been appeased,and failure has had its revenge. — Henry Fairlie

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job — Seamus Heaney

I thank my personal staff for their restless sacrifice for my work. — Oskar Schindler

You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either. — Galen Rowell

Rhythm must have meaning. — Ezra Pound

If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed with some of the sentences, you know? Syllabication and prosody and such crap. Because the printed word is etched in stone. But for reading purposes I accepted this book of texts in the manner in which I wrote them, no need to fuss. Most of the shorter stuff was written as poetry. Meaning lots of white space on the page. — Richard Meltzer

Aren't autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don't we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is who I am. — Frederick Weisel

We just wanted a perfect life, with perfect smiles and perfect blue skies, but instead, we ended up with the gloomy grey clouds and thunderstorms. — Shanora Williams

THE HEART OF WORSHIP IS SURRENDER. — Rick Warren

To be apathetic is literally to be without passion. — Erwin Raphael McManus