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
“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
“The next “I will” is in John, fourteenth chapter, verse eighteen: “I will not leave you comfortless.” To me it is a… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
If there's a track that's rhyme friendly, the verse will basically write itself. If the track is less rhyme friendly, you have… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to… — Dick Smothers Copy Share Image
France at the dinner table in faraway places; but here, among ourselves, in the family, let us face the facts: France is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“He spoke to her, though, if only through his verse. One night in the banqueting hall, just before a ball, he responded… — Judith James Copy Share Image
“Tizzy squawked, and he bounced like a ball on the floor. “I completely forgot; Santa said something more. He said that a… — Dorothea Jensen Copy Share Image
'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
“When you are reading your Scriptures in this way—it matters not whether you have read little or much—if a verse stands out… — David Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“We see through a glass, darkly.” The verse surprised him. He hadn’t picked up a Bible in a year, yet he knew… — Janice Cantore Copy Share Image
Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it,… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If… — C. Day Lewis Copy Share Image
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse… — Anonymous 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
My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write it down, sometimes I freestyle. I get lines coming to me randomly throughout the day and I'll jot it… — CJ Fly 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
I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
“Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Cannot it actually be that in a wildly literal sense, unacceptable to one's reason, he meant disappearing in his art, dissolving in… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as… — John Updike Copy Share Image
O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice! O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths! O lavish,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Of all sad words, of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been.' Let's add this thought, unto this… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
