Quotes About Quatrain

#1. At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse.

James Fenton

#2. 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

#3. The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Jim Rohn

#4. What will really make you attractive is not working on your weak points but embracing them.

Deepak Chopra

#5. I am a loyal American. I am extremely proud of the work I have done for the United States and for my country and her people. I expect to be treated as such by the representatives of my government and those who report its work.

Steven Hatfill

#6. She saw the children. They have been given viruses to educate them. From three weeks old they could speak and do basic arithmetic. By ten, they had been made adult, forced like flowers to bloom early. But they were not flowers of love. They were flowers of work, to be put to work. There was no time.

Geoff Ryman

#7. Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

Elaine Stritch

#8. Before there is peace, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red.

Erin Hunter

#9. How often the pillars of our wisdom have crumbled into dust!

Erich Von Daniken

#10. I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.

Wendy O. Williams

#11. Very well, Practical Vitari, if you really can't resist me. You'll have to go on top, though, if you don't mind.

Joe Abercrombie

#12. I think Madonna might have a multiple personality.

Maripol

#13. It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#14. How did they find out?" Donnal inquired. "Did you set them on fire?"
"You know, it's so rare that I actually do that, and yet that's always the first question anyone asks me." -Senneth

Sharon Shinn