Line Quotes

“The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose.”

“The way to success is not a straight line segment. It's a dotted line with little packs of failure filling the potholes of broken edges inbetween.”

“Parallel lines meet at infinity. Looking back from said point, do parallel lines ever not meet?”

“If I could turn my thoughts into spoken words and share them with someone, they’d become real and mean something. Now, they were only lines that could be erased when I didn’t feel them anymore or hopeful thoughts that, like shadows, would disappear when the sun went away. - Rebecca Meyer, Crooked Lines”

“This morning, I see the lead in my glass tumbler. A slim, bright glint, a silverfish. I feel it collecting in my blood, papercutting the lining of my veins.”

“The bottom-line is, that nothing should affect your bottom-line.”

“Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.”

“Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.”

“In everyone’s life, there is a line between reality and dreams; but poets don’t have that line.”