A Quote by Sherman Alexie

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

Sherman Alexie

Quote Topics

Meter Poet Whine

Quote Author

Sherman Alexie
American - Novelist
Born: October 7, 1966

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

Nikki Giovanni

If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.

Emile Hirsch

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

Donald Hall

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.

Artie Lange

When I was 10, I went to the Junior Olympics for the 50-meter and 100-meter breaststroke.

Colin Jost

We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.

Juan Felipe Herrera

In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhythm or meter…And each line has to end with a rigid pattern. And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnet…But within this strict form the poet has complete freedom to say whatever he wants…You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

Madeleine L'Engle

I think you have a right to whine. Honestly, Lucy. We all have the right to whine when life gets tough.

Nancy Werlin

My favorite piece of tech gear is my SRM power meter. It's the most accurate power meter on the market.

Timothy O'Donnell

The most challenging aspect of the decathlon is not the events themselves, but how you train to become the best 100-meter runner you are on the same day that you're the best 1,500-meter runner.

Bruce Jenner

One of the appeals of William Carlos Williams to me is that he was many different kinds of poet. He tried out many different forms in his own way of, more or less, formlessness. He was also a poet who could be - he was a love poet, he was a poet of the natural order and he was also a political poet.

W. S. Di Piero

The 14-8,000-meter-peaks-in-six-months project was something nobody could imagine was ever possible. It's tough just to climb one 8,000-meter peak, let alone 14 in such a short period of time.

Nirmal Purja

Emily Dickinson seems rather tame because she pretty much uses the same meter every time. It's called 'common meter.' It's a line of four beats that's followed by a line of three beats.

Billy Collins

It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm interested in any discussion about whether I'm a good poet, a bad poet or a great poet. But I am sure, I want to write great poems. I think every poet should want that.

Clive James

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

Artie Lange

I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that.