Quotes About Quatrains

#1. My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number.

James Arthur

#2. Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?.

David Ogilvy

#3. I'd rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary.

Michelle Magorian

#4. I still connect with original emotions. 'Night Moves' was written about 1961 or 1962 when I was in high school, and it was about what my friends and I did in that period.

Bob Seger

#5. What lies ahead of you is better than what you have already experienced.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#6. Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he's free.

Rumi

#7. With the understanding that you will face tough times and amazing experiences, you must also commit to the adventure. Just have faith in the skills and the knowledge you've been blessed with and go.

Michael Dell

#8. If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.

Billy Crudup

#9. Partners like the United States and Germany must always discuss all issues, including these questions. I welcome the fact that a discussion over legitimate methods of questioning and interrogation is taking place in both Germany and the United States.

Angela Merkel

#10. When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.

Richard Grossman

#11. Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future,

George Eliot

#12. Touch me. Soft eyes. Soft soft soft hand. I am lonely here. O, touch me soon, now. What is that word known to all men? I am quiet here alone. Sad too. Touch, touch me.

James Joyce

#13. Ann: If we know God, we do not need to know why He allows us to experience what we do.

K. Howard Joslin

#14. Her eyes were like the first morning of the world, so ageless

D.H. Lawrence

#15. There is good reason for supposing that the archetypes are the unconscious images of the instincts themselves, in other words, that they are patterns of instinctual behaviour.

C. G. Jung

#16. Life is a journey, not a destination," Emerson said. "One must live in the moment.

Janet Evanovich