A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“My head bows before the thing you mention. But my heart doesn't speak that language. - The Epic of Sheik Bedreddin , Verse 9.” — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
On every verse I do, I'm going to try to improve myself in some type of way. — Paul Wall Copy Share Image
There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare. — Ted Lange Copy Share Image
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“once ruffle-skirted vanity table where I primped at thirteen, opening drawers to a private chaos of eyeshadows lavender teal sky-blue, swarms of… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
“...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“Sitting in a corner, I live like a toad Oh! How I love my room: my tiny abode! Here I wake up;… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
“You have known, O Gilgamesh, What interests me, To drink from the Well of Immortality. Which means to make the dead Rise… — Herbert Mason Copy Share Image
I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“Verse 4.—“Unto the end of the world.” Venantius Fortunatus eleven hundred years ago witnesses to the peregrinations of Paul the apostle. He… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
“Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“When two or three people come together in the name of Neverland then I will be there amidst them or if I… — Daniel Prokop Copy Share Image
“Fat Charlie blew his nose. "I never knew I had a brother," he said. "I did," said Spider. "I always meant to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Did I live the spring I’d sought? It’s true in joy, I walked along, took part in dance, and sang the song.… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. — David Ives Copy Share Image
This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation.” — Ray Bradbury 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
“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 by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience. — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.” — John Donne Copy Share Image
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
This the third verse let's get to a conclusion. Image is a smokescreen, rappers are illusions. — Gorilla Zoe Copy Share Image
