Poetry Couplet Quotes

#1. So What Did You Think of His Poetry? {Couplet}
He was a humdrum poet who left his Hallmark upon the world;
in his poems an umbrella never opened, they all magically unfurled.

Beryl Dov

#2. New [10w] + {Couplet}
Poetry is fashion, its new arrivals
are simply just revivals.

Beryl Dov

#3. I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same.

Brene Brown

#4. Freedom is a subset of survival.

Toba Beta

#5. In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to a sonnet.

Akiko Busch

#6. Today I introduced myself to my very own Heart,
In silent agony, after all these years it bled apart.

Ankita Singhal

#7. I still get butterflies. It's because there's a certain level of responsibility you carry when doing a concert. You've got to sound at least as good as the record.

Michael Bolton

#8. For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

Adam Gopnik

#9. Farsi Couplet:
Naala-e zanjeer-e Majnun arghanoon-e aashiqanast
Zauq-e aan andaza-e gosh-e ulul-albaab neest


English Translation:
The creaking of the chain of Majnun is the orchestra of the lovers,
To appreciate its music is quite beyond the ears of the wise.

Amir Khusrau

#10. The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling into the hole of the "idea" he has dug for himself.

Daido Moriyama

#11. Farsi Couplet:
Ba khak darat rau ast maara,
Gar surmah bechashm dar neaayad.


English Translation:
The dust of your doorstep is just the right thing to apply,
If Surmah (kohl powder) does not show its beauty in the eye!

Amir Khusrau

#12. You're going to catch a cold.
I already have a cold.
You are going to catch a colder.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#13. Friendship's the wine of life.

Edward Young

#14. He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#15. They do not discover anything new after that, they only learn how to understand better and better the secret entrusted to them at the outset; their creative effort goes into an unending exegesis, a commentary on that one couplet of poetry assigned to them.

Bruno Schulz

#16. I feel like the human body is what it is, and the more you make yourself comfortable with it, the better off you are. Love your body and embrace that.

Mehcad Brooks