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I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet. -- Henry Austin Dobson
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity -- Voltaire
Ode to the Chamber...linger here amidst the chamberin which we embrace our lovetalk to me of sonnetsand call me turtledove... -- Muse
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
The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies. -- William Faulkner
Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet. -- Samuel Johnson
She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir. -- Charles Dickens
Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem is based] in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack. -- Seamus Heaney
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. -- Victor Hugo
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. -- Victor Hugo
My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy. -- Hamish Bowles
No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode. -- James Fenton
No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Willomena Frankenburger. -- Jane Seymour
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . . -- Maxim Gorky
Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode. -- Dorianne Laux
Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy. -- Wynn Bullock
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
[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

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