Top 45 Quotes About Ode
#1. One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man .
Maxim Gorky
#2. I shall write an ode!" threatened Philip direfully.
"Ah no, that is too much!" cried De Vangrisse with feeling.
Georgette Heyer
#3. Celebrate my heart, at ease or on fire, in my usual featherbrained way.
Horace, Roman Poet
Ode I-6, 23 BCE
Vivian Swift
#4. i am
a lioness
who is no longer
afraid to let the world
hear her
roar
-an ode to me
Amanda Lovelace
#5. I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.
Michael Moore
#7. My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.
Hamish Bowles
#8. The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.
Honore De Balzac
#10. The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Victor Hugo
#11. [On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.
Judith Viorst
#12. You might want to ease up on the perfume." "I'm not wearing perfume." "Sure you are. I think it's called 'Ode To Get The Fuck Away From Me'." I looked at her face quickly enough to see her have to force her lips to stay in a straight line. "Apparently I need to go put on some more," she said,
Jessica Gadziala
#13. Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book is an ode to such joys, a digest of my collections from various sources.
Rabindranath Tagore
#14. I like my coffee black, my beer from Germany, wine from Burgundy, the darker, the better. I like my heroes complicated and brooding, James Dean in oiled leather, leaning on a motorcycle. You know the color. ("Ode to Chocolate")
Barbara Crooker
#15. Hazard of the job. That's Ode de Anal Gland you smell.
Kelly Moran
#16. The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Victor Hugo
#17. The white in her hair verged on silver-plate. The style was some cosmetologist's ode to meringue.
Jonathan Kellerman
#18. Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.
Wynn Bullock
#19. Wheresoe'er I turn my view,
All is strange, yet nothing new:
Endless labor all along,
Endless labor to be wrong:
Phrase that Time has flung away;
Uncouth words in disarray,
Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,
Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Samuel Johnson
#20. Our word Tragedy comes from the greek, tragos-ode: "The song of the goat." Anybody who has ever heard a goat attempt to sing will know why.
Neil Gaiman
#21. Ode to the Chamber
... linger here amidst the chamber
in which we embrace our love
talk to me of sonnets
and call me turtledove ...
Muse
#22. She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.
Charles Dickens
#23. Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.
Dorianne Laux
#24. I take the dust from the lotus feet of the guru to cleanse the mirror of my mind." So begins a sacred ode to Hanuman.
Ram Dass
#25. No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode.
James Fenton
#26. One day I will write an ode about kissing. I will call it "Ode to a Kiss".
It will be epic.
Nicola Yoon
#27. Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.
Victor Hugo
#28. Love is a fiction, a fable, an ode spun by poets and drunks, a fantastical tale told across one thousand and one nights, it is the genie in the bottle, it is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, it's the lie designed to seduce you.
Lauren Blakely
#29. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. "Ode of Remembrance" Lawrence Binyon
John Ringo
#30. Fine, but you should at least have to write an epic poem in my honor. Here, I'll help you. "Ode to Keefe Sencen, that brave lovable nut. He may not have teal eyes, but he has a really cute,"
"KEEFE"!
Shannon Messenger
#31. Elegantly accomplished," said Nehemiah Trot. "I shall compose an Ode. Would you like to stay and listen?
Neil Gaiman
#32. This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
Voltaire
#33. An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.
Ambrose Bierce
#35. I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.
Stephen Fry
#36. When I hate I rob myself of something; but when I love I become richer by the object I love.
Friedrich Schiller
#37. I sleep on a tar roof
scream my songs
into lazy floods of stars ...
a white powder paddles through blood and heart
and the returns
pure and easy ...
This city is on my side.
Jim Carroll
#38. O moon! I may not be able to reach you or touch you with my hands, but I will never forget to kiss your silvery twinkling lips with my lovely eyes.
Debasish Mridha
#39. She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the lawn
like a mantle of cloth.
Roman Payne
#40. We are born to believe
We can't change a thing
We can't, and we never could.
But before you believe
The things you believe
You must understand
To be understood.
John C. O'Callaghan
#41. You have already achieved the English-Language poet's most important goal: you can read, Write and speak English well enough to understand this sentence.
Stephen Fry
#42. I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea - in love with your speed, your heaviness and breath.
Frank O'Hara
#43. Like God
Gumbo is hard
to get right
& I don't bother
asking for it outside
my mother's house.
Like life, there's no one
way to do it,
& a hundred ways,
from here to Sunday,
to get it dead wrong.
Kevin Young
#44. Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight,
Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite,
Exploding senses preparing to ignite,
Inspiring to escape from the suffocating night.
Claudia Bakker
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