The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose. — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse! — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks hes the Lord of all Creation — Anonymous 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
Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement… — John Constable Copy Share Image
I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“There are days I am whole Some days I feel bruised A silhouette of verse emerges To mirror my mood And with… — Collette O'Mahony Copy Share Image
Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I don't claim to be someone that knows every verse in the Bible. I wish I did. I truly do. It just… — Elisabeth Hasselbeck Copy Share Image
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms,… — William Cowper 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
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 commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
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
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
I never freestyle. I always give a written verse cause I just don't wanna go out like that. — Lil Yachty Copy Share Image
I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think. — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
“Despise me not! And be not queasy To praise somewhat: Verse is not easy.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense. — R. K. Milholland 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
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. — Charles Churchill 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
“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
“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
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
“In the verse of each day, find your own way, let perseverance be the words you say.” — Covenant A. Akinlotan 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
No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square. — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
