Couplets Quotes

• 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

  Discipline, Three, Development

  David Ogilvy (1963). "Confesiones de un publicitario", Holiday House

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• Cualquier cosa que puedas hacer, o que sueñes que puedes hacer, empieza a hacerla. La audacia tiene genio, poder y magia.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspiración, Vida, Motivación

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• But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

  Rosanne Cash

  Writing, Giving, Perfect

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• Una pirática historia de fantasmas en trece ingeniosas pero potencialmente inquietantes coplas rimadas, concebida originalmente como una confección tanto para divertir como para entretener por Mr. Neil Gaiman, guionista, y luego garabateada, elaborada, ilustrada y golpeada con fuerza por Mr. Cris Grimly, grabador e iluminador, en el que aparecen dos valientes niños, su diminuta pero no menos valiente gacela, y un gran número de peligrosísimos trolls, monstruos, bichos, criaturas y otras asquerosidades por el estilo, muchos de los cuales tienen hábitos alimenticios perfectamente repugnantes y no deberían, bajo ninguna circunstancia, ser alentados.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Two, Numbers

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• He aprendido a respetar profundamente una de las coplas de Goethe: "Todo lo que puedas hacer o soñar que puedes hacer, inícialo. La audacia tiene genio, poder y magia. Empieza ahora".

  W. H. Murray

  Inspiración, Sueño, Coraje

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• La mejor venganza es el éxito masivo.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspiración, Motivación, Positivo

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• Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Art, Nice, Dull

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• Allí estábamos, niños dementes que se paseaban con ropas que nadie había llevado nunca, hablando como nadie había hablado jamás, jurando amor con pelucas y coplas rimadas, matándonos unos a otros con espadas de madera, lanzando huecas protestas de fe tras vacías promesas de venganza, y cada gesto, cada pose, desvaneciéndose en el delgado aire despoblado. Rescatamos nuestra dignidad a las nubes, y los pájaros incomprendidos escucharon. ¡¿No lo ves?! Somos actores, ¡lo contrario de las personas!

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Men, Clouds

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.63, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I came to writing mysteries through poetry and still think that a well-constructed mystery is very much like a well-constructed sonnet. Both are artificial forms. Both start off in one direction and then, with a twist of the concluding couplet/surprising ending, both reveal that they were headed somewhere different all the time.

  Margaret Maron

  Writing, Thinking, One Direction

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• There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat of rhyming couplets, with echoes of Pope and the tradition of eighteenth-century philosophical verse.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Philosophical, Play, Echoes

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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• Soy una enamoradiza compulsiva. Me atraen los significados a medias creados por la línea, así que ése es sin duda un elemento artesanal que siempre tengo en mente. Y soy un gran devoto de la línea corta, de las coplas y tercetos, y de las estrofas irregulares con mucho espacio en blanco. Tengo que dejar que el lenguaje denso respire.

  Anna Viaje

  Always On My Mind, White, Space

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Beautiful, Dad, Believe

  "La poesía como forma de pensar: Entrevista con James Arthur". Entrevista con Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• Luego, en la última y única copla cargada de alguna cosa sin sentido que llaman pensamiento, un innecesario alejandrino termina la canción, que, como una serpiente herida, arrastra su lenta longitud.

  Alexander Pope

  Song, Snakes, Lasts

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 354

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• The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact, a very long poem in "heroic couplets". If something is called an essay, it should be an essay.

  Maureen Johnson

  Long, Challenges, Criticism

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.41, Penguin

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• For the hundredth time tonight, I’m back with Lulu, on Jacques’s barge, the improbably named Viola. She’d just toldme the story of double happiness and we were arguing over the meaning. She’d thought it meant the luck of the boy getting the job and the girl. But I’d disagreed. It was the couplet fitting together, the two halves finding each other. It was love. But maybe we were both wrong, and both right. It’s not either or, not luck or love. Not fate or will. Maybe for double happiness, you need both.

  Gayle Forman

  Girl, Jobs, Fate

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• I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.

  William Cowper

  Sound, Tasks, Venture

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.379

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• I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets.

  Charles de Lint

  Writing, Play, Careers

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• For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

  Adam Gopnik

  Art, Writing, Talking

  "Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

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• I like ghosts. I like friends. I like couplets. I like the idea of a mission.

  Dara Wier

  Ideas, Ghost, Missions

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• It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

  Francisco Negro

  Mean, People, Levels

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• They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, I Barón Lytton

  Rocks, Age, Shells

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• Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.

  Tom Morello

  Years, Three, Cash

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• The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Two, Three

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• Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

  David Ives

  Writing, Giving, Interesting

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