Villanelle Form Quotes & Sayings

We have lost our humanity. — Tahereh Mafi

It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing. — Jim Dodge

I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical. — Robert Pinsky

I love her deeply and have done everything for her. I've no feeling of letting her down because I've put her foremost in everything. — John F. Kennedy

When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill it. And you have to find how to make that form say what you want to say. But what you find, always
I think any poet who's worked in form will agree with me
is that the form leads you to what you want to say. — Ursula K. Le Guin

No wonder these people don't believe in evolution. It obviously hasn't worked in their favor. — Jeri Smith-Ready

[Genre is] like working in any form - in poetry, for example. When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill it. And you have to find how to make that form say what you want to say. But what you find, always - I think any poet who's worked in form will agree with me - is that the form leads you to what you want to say. It is wonderful and mysterious. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Let's determine to finish well by helping facilitate a lifelong conversation and sense of community between God and the people He has called us to serve. — Paul Baloche