Joss Whedon Quotes

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind of electric for me - he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.

I've hated poetry ever since I was at school. I include Shakespeare in that. I don't understand the obsession with him!

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play.

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing.

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

I like poems that are little games.

Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.