That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he… — Anonymous 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
No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
This birthday verse is little and I want you to know and see, that you're someone very special especially to me. — Susan Smith Copy Share Image
I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive… — Maurice Cowling 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
“A book of verses underneath the bough A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou Beside me singing in the… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
The verses talked about other Prophets as brothers preaching the same unifying script of mankind, showing every man and woman the way… — Cat Stevens 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
Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they… — Hugo Claus Copy Share Image
There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what… — Alejandro Amenabar Copy Share Image
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens. — Ryan Cayabyab Copy Share Image
The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And… — Thomas Hood 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
Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in… — George Herbert 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
O innocent victims of Cupid, Remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid, To let a kiss… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the concordance of Nicola Six's kisses there were many subheads and subsections, many genres and phyla - chapter and verse, cross-references,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in… — Ovid Copy Share Image
In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I'm not looking for Bible verses to back up a lifestyle of passiveness. I'm looking for Bible verses and life experiences to… — Mike Bickle Copy Share Image
Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really… — Phil Cooke Copy Share Image
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually… — David Ives Copy Share Image
