Verse Quotes

326 Verse quotes by 251 unique authors

And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture. — Pablo Neruda
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. — Edgar Lee Masters
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth â€” Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? — Robert Browning
Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse! — Cornelia Funke
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse… — Wystan Hugh Auden
For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in… — Christopher Moore
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. — Robert A. Heinlein
The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and… — Walt Whitman
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see… — Rainer Maria Rilke
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear… — C.S. Lewis
It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an… — Tom Robbins
Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what… — Joss Whedon
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done… — Matsuo Basho
No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am… — William Shakespeare
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything… — Jorge Luis Borges
Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I… — Charles Baudelaire
And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. — Robert Frost

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