Verses Quotes

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

— Eugenio Montale

Wisdom married to immortal verse.

— William Wordsworth

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

— Richard Howard

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

— Anonymous

The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

— Horace

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

— Russell Baker

One of my favorite verses!

— Rebecca

One mark of good verse is surprise

— John Betjeman

“your smile. is the ultimate golden dream. all the poems in the world are waking up from.”

— Sanober Khan

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

— Voltaire

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

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

— Victor Hugo

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

— John Donne

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

— Russell Baker

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

— Joseph Joubert

I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist.

— Frank O'Hara

It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.

— Kenneth Rexroth

Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery,…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.

— George Carey

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to…

— Alfred Nobel

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought

— Edmund Spenser

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

— Rumi

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add…

— Jackson Browne

'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his…

— Caitlin Rose

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the…

— Alexander Pope

All right, so there he is, our representative to the world, Mr. Western Civilization, in codpiece and pantyhose up there on the…

— Marvin Mudrick

Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open…

— James Fenton

"Face Again" is actually the most George Saunders-y song. Basically the verses, I'm describing a world where love is being killed, and…

— How to Dress Well

Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed…

— Charlotte Mason

A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in…

— James Fenton

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

Here, then, is a simple rule of thumb for all of us to apply: If the words of Jesus challenge something I…

— Michael L. Brown

Kaz came to Switzerland where I was teaching to share with me [Heart Sutra] wondrous insight. There he and I worked on…

— Joan Halifax

A few years back, even the most commercial pop could have some artistic value. Someone who liked underground music could appreciate Justin…

— Jorge Elbrecht

Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The…

— Robert Burns

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with…

— Edmund Spenser

In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In general, in the matters that relate to theology or behavior, people to one another, Paul was obviously biblically correct. But when…

— Jimmy Carter

It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or…

— Jorge Luis Borges