Verses Quotes

409 Verses quotes by 295 unique authors

Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse.… — Paul Valery
Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For… — John Dryden
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... — John Dryden
I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. You… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a chorus, an A and a B part...whatever.… — David First
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. — Robert Frost
I was born to travel and write verse. — Theophile Gautier
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend. — Franz Grillparzer
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the… — John Drinkwater
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was… — Steve Earle
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

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