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Like Emily Dickinson, I ain't afraid of slant rhyme / And that's the end of this verse; emcee's out on a high.
— John Green
Trust in good verse then: They only shall aspire,
When pyramids, as men
Are lost i'the funeral fire. — Arthur Quiller-Couch
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
— Alexander Pope
I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required
— Marilynne Robinson
I like it when I can sing half of a verse and throw the mike in some kid's face, and they sing it right back to me.
— Mitchel Musso
A new day is risingWonderful, beautiful and peaceful,
So that I slowly allow myself to
Feel the verse of the morning — Stjepan Varesevac Cobets
Come, sir, come,I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.
Look, here I have you, thus I let you go,
And give you to the gods. — William Shakespeare
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Now, go, wirte it before them in a table and note it in a book, that it may be fore the time to come for ever and ever. Isiah 30:8
— Isiah From The Bible
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
— James Thomson
In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to a sonnet.
— Akiko Busch
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.
— Margaret Atwood
No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.
— Alfred Austin
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
— John Drinkwater
Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.
— Henry David Thoreau
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
— Mahatma Gandhi
on - that verse from Jeremiah - if you seek the welfare of the city where you are, you'll find your own welfare there too.
— Kristen Ethridge
No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.
— Arthur W. Pink
The simple Wordsworth ... / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.
— Lord Byron
I made the first cut razor thin. A gentle kiss on virgin skin.
— Madeleine Kuderick
Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 — Edward Thomas
I don't claim to be someone that knows every verse in the Bible. I wish I did. I truly do. It just means I need to spend more time in those pages.
— Elisabeth Hasselbeck
The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
Rigveda: Book No 1. Hyme No. 164 verse 46:Truth, one and the same be,
Wise describe it differently — Munindra Misra
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
— William Carlos Williams
Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.
— Dylan Thomas
As the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing.
— Watch Tower Bible And Tract Society
People get the biggest kick out of seeing the features of their faces plastered onto one head.
— Thomas Ligotti
I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence Was there ever a more galling verse in the Bible?
— Sue Monk Kidd
Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.
— Holly Schindler
Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.
— Alfred Austin
The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.
— H.P. Lovecraft
You can throw the whole weight of your anxieties upon him, for you are his personal concern.
— J.B. Phillips
Wisdom married to immortal verse.
— William Wordsworth
I was born to travel and write verse.
— Theophile Gautier
Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
— John Crowe Ransom
Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
— N.H. Kleinbaum
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.
— John Millington Synge
For the spirit God gives us does not make us timid, but gives us power love and self discipline.
— Anonymous
Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.
— Kiki Dimoula
I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.
— George Carlin
I am a poetwriting frenetic free verse
I am pretentious — Michael H. Hanson
Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
— John Donne
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
— Paul Cezanne
'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.
— Bruce Cockburn
Years since. It was written in 1675, in the home-spun verse of that time and people,
— Benjamin Franklin
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
— Ellen Hopkins
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
— Quintilian
The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.
— Gloria Gaynor
There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not.
— Ellen Hopkins
You trip over a word while carryinga tray of vocabulary out to the pool
only to discover that broken glass
is a good topic. — Billy Collins
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
— Bayard Taylor