Blank Verse Quotes

#1. BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. You can write anything you want to,
a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What's the use? You can never be smarter than you are.

Brenda Ueland

#3. I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

Charles Lamb

#4. The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Robert Morgan

#5. Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#6. Every mode of violent death available to Renaissance man, including a lye pit, land mines, a trained falcon with envenom'd talons, is employed. It plays, as Metzger remarked later, like a Road Runner cartoon in blank verse

Thomas Pynchon

#7. I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

Anna Quindlen

#8. The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.

James Fenton

#9. You imagine blank verse is a liberation, but no. Discard rhyme, you discard a parachute ...

David Mitchell

#10. What effect am I having on this world? I'm not sure yet. I have my worries, doubts and fears, but the way I'm trying to affect the world is with positive, right action.

Robert Gossett

#11. History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. World needs a new order of modern economy.

Toba Beta

#13. Fucking. It doesn't start when you get naked, not the way I do it.

Kit Rocha

#14. It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.

Shia Labeouf

#15. Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Bela Lugosi

#16. Stop that! What were you doing, perched on the window ledge like a big chicken?"
Despite his aches and irritations, he couldn't help but grin. "I prefer to think of myself as a more noble bird, like a hawk."
"I'm sure you do. But you flew like a chicken than any hawk I've seen.

Karen Hawkins

#17. She had gills while other people were breathing with lungs. There was, however, no point in dwelling on it, as it was too later to grow up differently.

Sonja Yoerg

#18. Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Joseph Addison

#19. When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion

Oprah Winfrey

#20. I do text a lot. Sometimes, at night, my thumbs hurt because I've texted so much, so I definitely text too much.

Miranda Cosgrove