I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. — David Ives Copy Share Image
“I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed.” — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square. — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
I like it when I can sing half of a verse and throw the mike in some kid's face, and they sing… — Mitchel Musso Copy Share Image
“Much which is unworthy in human life might be avoided if people would only accustom themselves to talking in verse” — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“In the verse of each day, find your own way, let perseverance be the words you say.” — Covenant A. Akinlotan Copy Share Image
“How are poets able to unzip what they see around them, calling forth a truer essence from behind a common fact? Why,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting.… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
“Your words on the screen are my color palette I dip my brush into your words and paint you On the sky,… — Richard L. Ratliff Copy Share Image
“blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear,… — Barbara Blatner 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
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
“Wings can only fly as long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest… — Berton Braley Copy Share Image
No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry does so many different things, it's difficult to say anything definitive about its role, which of course varies from culture to… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“O Don Quixote, wise as thou art brave, La Mancha's splendor and of Spain the star! To thee I say that if… — Cervantes Copy Share Image
It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, That she (dear she) might take some pleasure of my pain;… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. — Robert Frost 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
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
“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
When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first. — Feist Copy Share Image
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. — Charles Churchill 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
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. — Robert Morgan 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
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
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
“oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)” — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now. — Fetty Wap Copy Share Image
