Verse Quotes

326 Verse quotes by 251 unique authors

Prose proposes, verse reverses. — Richard Howard
There's a verse in the Bible: 'Those who are barren have more children than those who give birth.' There are young people all over the… — Ginger Rogers
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The… — Alexander Pope
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it. — Howard Nemerov
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind… — Ambrose Bierce
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same. — John Thorn
A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually… — William Hazlitt
BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot… — Ambrose Bierce
No one is saved by good works (Ephesians 2:8-9), but every Christian has been saved for good works (verse 10). — David Jeremiah
Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 — Edward Thomas
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first. — Denis Johnson
Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my… — J. Cole
Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeareâ€™s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an… — D. A. Carson
To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise. — George Herbert
The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower — Michael Longley
I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think. — John Betjeman
One mark of good verse is surprise — John Betjeman
...but when The Spirit speaks,â€”or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,â€”when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll, Or thunder sound,â€”the… — Robert Montgomery
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help… — Evelyn Waugh
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar! — Moliere

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