The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
If you've got a verse with a lot of rhythm, you want to pair it with something that doesn't. — Max Martin Copy Share Image
“I saw sunrises fade and burn among fleets of sparks. The moon blossomed like a lily carved of bone... The Death of… — Lewis Turco Copy Share Image
“The Earth, dost thou say? What has the Earth ever realized, that drop of frozen mud, whose Time is only a lie… — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Copy Share Image
“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks hes the Lord of all Creation — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
“The tips of my overgrown bangs dip into the wet of my tears. My fingers, forehead, moisten with sweat. I fight the… — Stasia Ward Kehoe Copy Share Image
“REQUIEM Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie: Glad did I live and gladly die, And… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I'll never let you brood over my numbness As long as your onion love I peel and cry I'll never let you… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass by… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“A poet not only has to observe but also absorb all the emotions objectively in order to express them in verse. Only… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“Tizzy squawked, and he bounced like a ball on the floor. “I completely forgot; Santa said something more. He said that a… — Dorothea Jensen Copy Share Image
“He spoke to her, though, if only through his verse. One night in the banqueting hall, just before a ball, he responded… — Judith James Copy Share Image
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“What is this love that makes me see beauty, and makes every beautiful thing bring you back to me? What is this… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“This is a uni-verse (”one song’). There’s one song playing everywhere and we are all notes in it. There are no “special”… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
