Verse Quotes

326 Verse quotes by 251 unique authors

WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay. — Michael Drayton
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. — Robert Frost
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to… — John Milton
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object… — C.S. Lewis
Ignorance is in relationship to content; it is not just a spirit of ignorance. In verse 21 it speaks of "the truth in Jesus." Truth… — Francis Schaeffer
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. — Felix Dennis
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to… — Florence King
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the… — Orson F. Whitney
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of… — John Updike
The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the most… — Shawn Amos
I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with my instruments. Whenever… — Valerie June
Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it. — Chet Atkins
People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do… — Leonard Alfred George Strong
Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history. — John Crowe Ransom
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. Day Lewis
Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them. — John Barton
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading… — Robert Morgan
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. — Robert Morgan
The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just… — Pras Michel

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