Syllabic Quotes

#1. Matt smirked. Well, it is interesting because lots of poems have mathematical imagery or structure. Concrete triangular poems and syllabic verse, for example. Did you know that we subconsciously track the sound properties in poetry?

Jessica Park

#2. Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back.

Stephen Burt

#3. According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

Salvatore Quasimodo

#4. Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.

Neal Boortz

#5. As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? Self.

Eden Phillpotts

#6. What the Earthers had discovered is that when people have nothing else to do, they have babies.

James S.A. Corey

#7. People do that on Facebook and it's the dumbest thing in the world. I don't care what your dinner looks like. Stop cluttering up the Internet with pictures of your dinner.

Seth MacFarlane

#8. Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

Florenz Ziegfeld

#9. When Jesus Christ came upon the Earth, you killed Him. The son of your own God. And only after He was dead did you worship Him and start killing those who would not.

Tecumseh

#10. Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

Germaine Greer

#11. When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.

Tom Glazer

#12. I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.

Ronald Sukenick

#13. For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#14. I'm playing with music and working on different types of music. But I've realised that I can't really stray from what is my marker.

Rebecca Ferguson

#15. Old enough ... Such a dumb concept. Old enough for what? To drink, to fuck, to know better? What fathead was in charge of making those decisions?

Margaret Atwood