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Discover the most inspirational quotes from the Iambic Quotes. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone.
Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Iambic Quotes will inspire and resonate with you. Iambic Quotes

Richard McCabe

I adored being at the RSC and working on the verse and getting the iambic pentameter right. You just skim across the surface, and the speech is over before you know it. You can just ride along on the music of it.

– Richard McCabe

John C McGinley

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

– John C McGinley

John C McGinley

The conventional wisdom with David Mamet is, you do not change a word. And that agrees with me. If you want to change any of David’s words, it’s like wanting to change the iambic pentameter in Shakespeare – you should do something else.

– John C McGinley

James Fenton

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.

– James Fenton

James Fenton

The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.

– James Fenton

James Fenton

In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables.

– James Fenton

Ian Doescher

I’ve spent so much time with iambic pentameter that I can now recognize it when I hear it in conversation or a movie – it’s like a weird, useless superpower.

– Ian Doescher

Ian Doescher

The hardest part of writing ‘William Shakespeare’s Star Wars’ was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for ‘Star Wars’ fans.

– Ian Doescher

Calvin Trillin

You know, I used to say, when people say, ‘How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?’ And I say, ‘Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.’

– Calvin Trillin

A A Gill

I tell you, once a girl’s got a dose of novels she’s a pushover for iambic pentameter.

– A A Gill

Funny Howard Nemerov

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

– Howard Nemerov

Chance Neil Patrick Harris

It’s good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you’re offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.

– Neil Patrick Harris

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