Verse Quotes

326 quotes by 251 authors

The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm,… — Edgar Allan Poe
A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice... — George Herbert
The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he… — Aldous Huxley
On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a… — A. E. Housman
Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse. — Alexander Pope
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. — John Drinkwater
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. — Theophile Gautier
Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the Capitoline Hill to… — Northrop Frye
I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it. — Hunter Parrish
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of… — James Fenton
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length… — James Fenton
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse -… — Jackson Browne
Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty -… — Roberto Benigni
Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs. — Dorothy Allison
What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty… — John Dryden
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple… — Marilyn Hacker
I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. — David Ives
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English,… — David Ives
I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it. — Jimmy Buffett

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