I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“The Word of God is truly divine. Every book, every chapter, every verse, and every line is a sign of God’s love… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
There are cases where you can say a lot more in a hook than you can by making things more complex in… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing." — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on… — Pras Michel Copy Share Image
“He robbed him of a great deal of his natural force, and so do all those who try to turn books written… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll rhyme on the joint and take my verse off it, like 'Nah, it didn't work.' I do that a lot… — The Alchemist Copy Share Image
“Night after night on starry wings Night lovers soared so high Miles apart, across the oceans Their love forgot to sigh In… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write yourglorious name. Where, whenas death shall allthe world subdue, Our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
“We try to divorce our pain by searching a sea of faces to ease our inner ache. Life’s challenge is to transform… — Collette O'Mahony Copy Share Image
“When they did "Best Sandwich" it turned the room friendly from strange and they could breathe each other's breath in and out… — Vera B. Williams Copy Share Image
Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
“Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Common would come to my house and give me a freestyle verse. I'd make a new beat for it and put it… — Clinton Sparks Copy Share Image
Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“I've tried to keep pleasant," Mabel went on. "You don't know how I've tried. I have that verse pinned up on my… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
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