Verse Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Verse
Verse Quotes & Sayings
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No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
— Louise Bogan
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
— Robert Morgan
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 think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
— Howard Nemerov
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
— Alexander Pope
With the farming of a verseMake a vineyard of the curse — W. H. Auden
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
The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off.
— M. Thomas Gammarino
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
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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
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
— G.K. Chesterton
Let's give our slave a big dream. A big future.
— Stasia Ward Kehoe
The inebriation of verse is eternal.
— Chandrashekar
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
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
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
— Felix Dennis
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
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
Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
— Anonymous
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
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
— John Drinkwater
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
— Theophile Gautier
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
— Denis Johnson
Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.
— Holly Schindler
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The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens.
— Ryan Cayabyab
One mark of good verse is surprise
— John Betjeman
Verse. Chorus. Verse. I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious. — Richard Siken
Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me - sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in — Sappho
Okay, so he wasn't dreaming anymore, but did this fall into same song second verse? He would just have to play this out and see what happened.
— Kindle Alexander
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
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
— Thomas Hardy
To this generation I would say:Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. — Edgar Lee Masters
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
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
Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.
— Alice Fulton
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.
— John Millington Synge
I am bothered by poems I don't understand.
— Joyce Rachelle
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
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
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
— Bayard Taylor
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
— Quintilian
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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
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
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
Years since. It was written in 1675, in the home-spun verse of that time and people,
— Benjamin Franklin
'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.
— Bruce Cockburn
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
— Paul Cezanne
Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
— John Donne
I am a poetwriting frenetic free verse
I am pretentious — Michael H. Hanson
I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.
— George Carlin
