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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
— Robert Morgan
Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
— James Broughton
Trust in good verse then: They only shall aspire,
When pyramids, as men
Are lost i'the funeral fire. — Arthur Quiller-Couch
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced ... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
— Kenneth Rexroth
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
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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
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
— Philip Pullman
The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me
— Stasia Ward Kehoe
Days of absence, sad and dreary,Clothed in sorrow's dark array, -
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.
Poetic Verse by — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
For nature does things in good order: And birds and butterflies recognize
No man-made border — Ruskin Bond
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
— G.K. Chesterton
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
— Edgar Allan Poe
and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms.
— Adrienne Rich
Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing."
— Mary C. Neal
Because Dad told you he'd be here forever. Because I thought forever was like Mars -- far away. — Kwame Alexander
That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church."
— Francis George
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
— Charles Churchill
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
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.
— R. K. Milholland
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
Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.
— Jonathan Swift
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
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.
— Howard Nemerov
Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.
— Dylan Thomas
"vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school of architecture.
— G.K. Chesterton
There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.
— Joss Whedon
'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
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
— William Carlos Williams
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
— N. Scott Momaday
Yet do thy worst old Time: despite thy wrong,My love shall in my verse ever live young — William Shakespeare
I dabbled in verse and it became my life
— Patrick Kavanagh
All disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink.
— Jonathan Swift
Much which is unworthy in human life might be avoided if people would only accustom themselves to talking in verse
— Karen Blixen
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
— Robert Frost
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too. They make up your crown, he said. — Jeannine Atkins
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
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.
— George Edward Woodberry
With you in my hand I can travel across the universe in one verse and skip moons to the tunes of Miles or Coltrane.
— Brandi L. Bates
Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Truth shines the brighter clad in verse.
— Jonathan Swift
The Earth, dost thou say? What has the Earth ever realized, that drop of frozen mud, whose Time is only a lie in the Heavens?
— Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought. — Anna Brownell Jameson
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
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse. — John Donne
Put your ideas in verse if you can; they will be more likely to be taken as truth.
— Daniel Kahneman
Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
Is all good structure in a winding stair? — George Herbert
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
— Thomas Hardy
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.
— Charlotte M. Mason
There's U and I in universe! Uni = One, Verse = Spoken Sentence, so one spoken sentence created you and I!
— Reed Abbitt Moore
Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me - sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in — Sappho
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
Rabbi Marx pointed out to me that there is a verse in Isaiah that says, "You are my witness. I am the Lord,
— Thomas L. Friedman
I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.
— Malorie Blackman
The pulse in music is what makes it alive.
— J.R. Rim
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
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
— Ambrose Bierce
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
— Winston Churchill
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.
— Franz Grillparzer
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
I made the first cut razor thin. A gentle kiss on virgin skin.
— Madeleine Kuderick
If Jonah had gone to Yale,Instead of the gut of a whale,
He'd have a diploma,
A better aroma,
And a nice little condo in Vail. — M.J. McGuire
I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
