Quotes About Sestina

#1. Time to plant tears, says the almanac.
The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove
and the child draws another inscrutable house.

Elizabeth Bishop

#2. The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or the similarity of their thought patterns,

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#3. I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.

Robert Pinsky

#4. Hey, Reece."
There was nothing but silence for a while and I waited.
Then Reece said, "Expected it to happen eventually, darlin', but didn't expect it to hit me that hard the first time I heard a man answer your phone.

Kristen Ashley

#5. Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:
he never told me he was from another world:
I never told him I was from his future.

Joe Haldeman

#6. In ten years I'd never had an interesting teacher. I was beginning to think they were myths, like unicorns and comfortable high heels.

Eve, Jaymin (2014-01-15). First World (A Walker Saga Book 1) (p. 19). . Kindle Edition.

Jaymin Eve

#7. I know necessity may cause the Church to tolerate the weak; but woe to us if we tolerate and indulge our own weakness.

Richard Baxter

#8. Don't let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine.

Flannery O'Connor

#9. Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.

James Stephens

#10. I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

Eric Church

#11. Time
goes
too
fast.
Come
home.

Miller Williams

#12. If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft ... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.

Anthony Burgess

#13. Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Abraham Lincoln

#14. Radar half raised his hand. I dutifully called on him. Yes, I was wondering if it would be possible for you to write a sestina about Margo Roth Spiegelman's breasts? Your six words are: pink, round, firmness, succulent, supple, and pillowy.

John Green

#15. Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.

Simon Van Booy

#16. The locals were pragmatic about their animals in a way the city people found callous.

Anna Quindlen

#17. I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

Charles Kettering

#18. I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

Princess Diana

#19. Lehman uses many conveyances - including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes - to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always bracing and tough-minded, brimming with a rare generosity.

Ken Tucker