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When the world uncovers some dark disguise,
Embrace the darkness with averted eyes. — Thomas Ligotti

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

Universe is just a verse of me, I keep it generic and the niggas take it personally. — Drake

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 verse
Make 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 rising
Wonderful, beautiful and peaceful,
So that I slowly allow myself to
Feel the verse of the morning — Stjepan Varesevac Cobets

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

yes many and beautiful things
]
]
] — 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

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms. — G.K. Chesterton

My features & my shows 10 times your pay 50k for a verse no album out — Nicki Minaj

Let's give our slave a big dream. A big future. — Stasia Ward Kehoe

Science have proof that women talk more than men, it's a fact. — Deyth Banger

The inebriation of verse is eternal. — Chandrashekar

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

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

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job. — Ezra Pound

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

With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe! — William Falconer

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

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

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

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

[It is not] the poet's business to use verse as an advanced form of rhetoric, nor to give to political statements the aura of eternal truth. — George Oppen

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

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

Verse. Chorus. Verse.
I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious. — Richard Siken

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau. — Donald Hall

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

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly. — Moliere

Wisdom married to immortal verse. — William Wordsworth

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history. — John Crowe Ransom

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

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

Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation. — Ray Bradbury

Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting. — Nina Nesbitt

neither for me honey nor the honey bee — Sappho

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

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse. — Bayard Taylor

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

I was born to travel and write verse. — Theophile Gautier

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

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

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

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

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it. — Hunter Parrish

For the spirit God gives us does not make us timid, but gives us power love and self discipline. — Anonymous

You may not know me, but I know everything about you. - Psalms 139:1 — Anonymous

You trip over a word while carrying
a 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

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

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'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one. — Victor Hugo

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 poet
writing frenetic free verse
I am pretentious — Michael H. Hanson

I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars. — George Carlin

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

Scatter as a prayer
escaping my lips...

as orchids
blooming in clouds. — Sanober Khan