Art Quote by John Constable

“We read every verse of Scripture lovingly and attentively, because every verse is a potential summons from God.”

— Richard J. Foster

Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must…

— Anonymous

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were…

— C. Day Lewis

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

— Howard Nemerov

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

— Richard Howard

“Don’t merely read verses; if that is all we do, we run the risk of deceiving ourselves. Don’t just pile up biblical information in…

— Mike Ashcraft

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

— Sidney Lanier

At some point you have to believe that the inadequacies of the words you use will be transcended by the faith with which you…

— Christian Wiman

The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the…

— Joseph Brodsky

“Much which is unworthy in human life might be avoided if people would only accustom themselves to talking in verse”

— Isak Dinesen

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

— Robert Bridges

“Whereas we see by experience that all who have or enjoy the Scripture do not yet understand it, or come to an useful, saving…

— John Owen