Quotes About Villanelle

#1. 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

#2. Was there a store somewhere full of unwanted secrets?

Kate Atkinson

#3. Grammy would speak of lost things, old things, things we should remember when it is hard to love, when one should play.

Lisa O'Donnell

#4. To me no profitable speech sounds ill.

Sophocles

#5. My own mask stayed just where it ought. I've had lots of practice.

Franny Billingsley

#6. There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.

Anton Chekhov

#7. I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.

Tamsin Greig

#8. To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#9. As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#10. It is dangerous for a spiritual master to accept almost any aspirant. Although it is an aspect of mercy, it is dangerous. The danger also depends on the spiritual potency of the particular guru. Without sufficient potency, a few offensive or faithless disciples can lead to the guru's fall.

Bhakti Tirtha Swami

#11. The main body of Vikings were given lands in the Seine basin in exchange for protecting Paris. They settled into northern France and within a century were speaking a dialect of French and became known as the Normans.

Mark Kurlansky

#12. Everyone starts out with nobody listening to them and nobody to listen to. How and who you add determines what Twitter will become for you.

Laura Fitton

#13. I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

Marilyn Monroe

#14. As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'

Jeffrey Skoll