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No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
— Louise Bogan
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
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
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
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— Deyth Banger
That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church."
— Francis George
Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing. — Kurt Vonnegut
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
— Quintilian
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
Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.
— Holly Schindler
For the spirit God gives us does not make us timid, but gives us power love and self discipline.
— Anonymous
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
There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not.
— Ellen Hopkins
The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.
— Gloria Gaynor
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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
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
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
— Octavio Paz
Beware ground on loose rock. Beware hale strangers. Beware sudden silence. - Tablet One, "On Survival," verse three
— N.K. Jemisin
Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
— Dorothy Allison
People get the biggest kick out of seeing the features of their faces plastered onto one head.
— Thomas Ligotti
We read poems from the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Neil insisted on spilling wine over my carpet.
— Michael Palin
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
— Leonard Cohen
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
— Bayard Taylor
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
Wisdom married to immortal verse.
— William Wordsworth
I was born to travel and write verse.
— Theophile Gautier
Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 — Edward Thomas
No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.
— Arthur W. Pink
No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.
— Alfred Austin
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
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
You can throw the whole weight of your anxieties upon him, for you are his personal concern.
— J.B. Phillips
The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.
— H.P. Lovecraft
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
I am bothered by poems I don't understand.
— Joyce Rachelle
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
