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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

A translation in verse ... seems to me something absurd, impossible. — Victor Hugo

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same. — John Thorn

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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]you will remember
]for we in our youth
did these things

yes many and beautiful things
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] — Sappho

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

...weaving his verbal wreaths, in prose and verse, of marvellous poison ivy. — Gore Vidal

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,
And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song. — John Keats

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

And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse — John Milton

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

In sober mornings do not thou rehearse
The holy incantation of a verse — Robert Herrick

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

The Bible says, 'If any would not work, neither should he eat.' Saint Paul wrote that, in Second Thessalonians, chapter three, verse ten, — Ken Follett

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

I am my own reflection
But when I look at me
I can see your affliction — Munia Khan

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist. — Alistair Begg

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

People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it. — Voltaire

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

My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry. — John Darnielle

Scatter as a prayer
escaping my lips...

as orchids
blooming in clouds. — Sanober Khan

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

For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things? [27] — Epictetus

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

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. — Dave Beard

I dabbled in verse and it became my life — Patrick Kavanagh

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it. — Ezra Pound

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

Every verse in the scrolls of your days sings to us of hope and wonder. — Zoe Klein

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 think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. — David Ives

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 words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases. — Paul Claudel

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

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose. — James Payn

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved. — Voltaire

Try Galactus and Silver Surfer fusing together in the MC2-verse weird. — Larry Gent

The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse. — Thomas Bulfinch

Who says that fictions only and false hair
Become 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

River Tam (Summer Glau): No power in the 'verse can stop me. — Joss Whedon

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

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first. — Feist

I could not eat a kangaroo. But many fine Australians do. Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs Prefer him in tasty kangaroo-meringues. — Ogden Nash

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

a~call it a blessing or call it a curse, but I see all of life in verse~ — Lynn Orloff

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

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery

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

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. — Anonymous

An important verse to memorize is: "God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). — Billy Graham

I wonder at the starry pattern in the sky
Are they little pieces of moon which want to fly..? — Munia Khan

Hunting Verse - Feet that make no noise; eyes that can see in the dark; ears that can hear the winds in their lairs, and sharp white teeth, all — Rudyard Kipling