Verse Quotes

326 quotes by 251 authors

[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good… — Theodore Roosevelt
When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person. — Emily Dickinson
Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted. — Dylan Thomas
Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse… — Stanislaw Lem
Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your… — A. E. Housman
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I… — Charles de Lint
Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm… — D. H. Lawrence
Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse.… — Paul Valery
Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For… — John Dryden
I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. You… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a chorus, an A and a B part...whatever.… — David First
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. — Robert Frost
I was born to travel and write verse. — Theophile Gautier
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend. — Franz Grillparzer
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the… — John Drinkwater
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight… — Paul Engle
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age… — James Fenton
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as… — James Fenton
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or… — James Fenton
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy

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