Top 631 Verse Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

I know that one of the things that I really did to push myself was to write more formal poems, so I could feel like I was more of a master of language than I had been before. That was challenging and gratifying in so many ways. Then with these new poems, I've gone back to free verse, because it would be easy to paint myself into a corner with form. I saw myself becoming more opaque with the formal poems than I wanted to be. It took me a long time to work back into free verse again. That was a challenge in itself. You're always having to push yourself.

Nothing whips my blood like verse.

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

I was born to travel and write verse.

If you've got a verse with a lot of rhythm, you want to pair it with something that doesn't.

Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken.

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

Wisdom married to immortal verse.

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

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

It was the enchantment of spoken verse that led me to write for children.

To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.

In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.

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

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

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

I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.

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

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

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

And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.

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

Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.

Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught

I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.

Love is the strange attractor, the allurement that holds the Uni-verse together.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

Big Sean could get on a verse with anybody and probably annihilate them.

All of Victorian verse is pentameter.

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

One mark of good verse is surprise

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

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

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

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.

Democracy is not always chapter and verse, written out in advance.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not.

With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.