metre quotes

Such a fatigue of adjectives, a drone of alliterations, a huffing of hyphenated words hurdling the meter like tired horses. Such a faded upholstery of tears, stars, bells, bones, flood and blood†a thud of consonants in tongue, night, dark, dust, seed, wound and wind.

- Anatole Broyard
  On Dylan Thomas's poetry.  Aroused by Books.

What is the metre of the dictionary?

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  'Altarwise by Owl-light'.

Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

- Derek Alton Walcott
  Omeros, bk.2, ch.24, section 2.