Versification Quotes

#1. [On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any other - also for diction. Her words paint.

Mary Russell Mitford

#2. He had little sympathy...for Mirabel, and little for what I have called the New Sensibility of the early 'twenties, for its flat bleakness, its lawless versification, its unheroic tone, its unintelligible images, its 'modernity' in short.

Jocelyn Gibb

#3. A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

Samuel Johnson

#4. Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.

A.E. Housman

#5. So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.

H.P. Lovecraft

#6. These "doyennes of society" were no different at bottom than the leading dames among the gossips of her own village. Within that little "society," their word was law, and the law was respectability.

Mercedes Lackey

#7. A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

David Talbot

#8. Readers can read what they want and easily switch to other books, so we're seeing a lot of reading behaviors. Some verticals attract different usage than others. We can spot reading patterns.

Trip Adler

#9. To be a runner was not to look a certain way. Running was not a sport. It was a lifestyle.

Lee Krinsky

#10. I'm. Not. A. Victim!" I growled low and clearly pronounced each word. "No? Then what are you?" he asked, angered by my words. "I'm a survivor.

Amelia Hutchins