Verses Quotes

409 Verses quotes by 295 unique authors

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou. — Edward Fitzgerald
The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played… — Eddie Van Halen
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy
I don't think I've ever had more fun doing anything in my life than trading verses with Daryl Hall on 'Private Eyes.' That's as fun… — Mayer Hawthorne
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky… — Tommy Lee
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. — Don Marquis
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose. — Moliere
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry… — Robert Morgan
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. — Alfred de Musset
I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to… — Howard Nemerov
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee. — Edgar Allan Poe
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job. — Ezra Pound
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out… — Anna Quindlen
I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds… — Lou Reed
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. — Jules Renard
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. — Salman Rushdie
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part.… — Salman Rushdie
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't… — Salman Rushdie
I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus,… — Bob Seger

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