Constant Quote by Ezra Pound

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

— James Payn

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally…

— Paul Valery

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

— Sidney Lanier

The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There…

— Paul Claudel

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

— Robert Morgan

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

— John Drinkwater

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.

— Deborah Keenan

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

— Margaret Atwood

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

— Moliere

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil,…

— Alexander Pope