Verses Quotes

409 Verses quotes by 295 unique authors

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse. — Alexander Pope
How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to… — Samuel Lover
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty,… — Joseph Brodsky
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. — John Drinkwater
All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure. — Joseph Joubert
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not… — Jorge Luis Borges
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. — Theophile Gautier
Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the Capitoline Hill to… — Northrop Frye
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine Pascal
I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it. — Hunter Parrish
After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort… — N. T. Wright
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. — Eugenio Montale
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose… — Eugenio Montale
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of… — James Fenton
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length… — James Fenton
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse -… — Jackson Browne
I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself. — Brandy Norwood
Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty -… — Roberto Benigni

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