Verses Quotes

409 Verses quotes by 295 unique authors

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
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your… — Robert W. Service
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the… — Lee Strasberg
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. — John Updike
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected… — Paul Valery
There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love. — Joss Whedon

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