Ode Quotes: top 31 famous quotes about Ode

Ode Quotes & Sayings

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Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy. — Wynn Bullock

Our word Tragedy comes from the greek, tragos-ode: "The song of the goat." Anybody who has ever heard a goat attempt to sing will know why. — Neil Gaiman

Hazard of the job. That's Ode de Anal Gland you smell. — Kelly Moran

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. — Victor Hugo

An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode. — Ambrose Bierce

Celebrate my heart, at ease or on fire, in my usual featherbrained way.

Horace, Roman Poet
Ode I-6, 23 BCE — Vivian Swift

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . — Maxim Gorky

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity — Voltaire

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all. — Stephen Fry

I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea - in love with your speed, your heaviness and breath. — Frank O'Hara

I shall write an ode!" threatened Philip direfully.
"Ah no, that is too much!" cried De Vangrisse with feeling. — Georgette Heyer

Victims always feel alone and helpless. — Deepak Chopra

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race — P. J. O'Rourke

Elegantly accomplished," said Nehemiah Trot. "I shall compose an Ode. Would you like to stay and listen? — Neil Gaiman

One day I will write an ode about kissing. I will call it "Ode to a Kiss".

It will be epic. — Nicola Yoon

O moon! I may not be able to reach you or touch you with my hands, but I will never forget to kiss your silvery twinkling lips with my lovely eyes. — Debasish Mridha

i am
a lioness
who is no longer
afraid to let the world
hear her
roar

-an ode to me — Amanda Lovelace

O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ode to the Chamber
... linger here amidst the chamber
in which we embrace our love
talk to me of sonnets
and call me turtledove ... — Muse

Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with. — Michael Moore

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet. — Henry Austin Dobson

The white in her hair verged on silver-plate. The style was some cosmetologist's ode to meringue. — Jonathan Kellerman

Person A understand Person B because the time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be understood by Person A. — Haruki Murakami

She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the lawn
like a mantle of cloth. — Roman Payne

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off. — Judith Viorst

We stood facing each other, but it seemed absurd to shake hands, so we just smiled, like two strangers who had collided by accident. — Michael Nava

When I hate I rob myself of something; but when I love I become richer by the object I love. — Friedrich Schiller

Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine. — Christopher Walken

Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode. — Dorianne Laux

What a scream of agony by torture lengthened out that lute sent forth! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I take the dust from the lotus feet of the guru to cleanse the mirror of my mind." So begins a sacred ode to Hanuman. — Ram Dass