Poet Quote by Charles Churchill

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

— Richard Howard

Prose talks and poetry sings.

— Franz Grillparzer

Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.

— Sidney Lanier

“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them”

— George Bernard Shaw

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

— Walt Whitman

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

— Juvenal

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in…

— Robert Morgan

“We say verse is fun in the doing, True, that’s what we’re saying. And if our rhymes now are only limping, why Muse, the…

— Merlie M. Alunan

Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the…

— John Barth

“When somebody discusses my work with me and peruses a poem or two, they get to see a piece of who I am. Because…

— Nicholas Trandahl

A poet must sing for his own people.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my…

— William Blake