Verse Quotes

326 quotes by 251 authors

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know. — Howard Nemerov
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got… — Howard Nemerov
Children should transcribe favourite passages. --A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose for… — Charlotte Mason
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose. — James Payn
Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. — Dave Beard
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 rivers aren't spanned;… — Berton Braley
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and… — Patrick Stewart
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself is… — David Hume
Wisdom married to immortal verse. — William Wordsworth
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce
We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for… — John Donne
The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But… — Edgar Allan Poe
Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any… — Mark Rylance
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. — Unknown Author
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then… — Jim Capaldi
I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading… — Cotton Mather
Super silver, Hawaiian haze Sativa, indica, Solomon's grave Genesis, chapter one verse twelve ways Marijuana, hashish, everybody blaze Fuels and fibers, energy saved When the… — Aceyalone
The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are… — Paul Claudel
Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it;… — Chanakya
When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to… — Mahatma Gandhi

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