Farewell Quote by John Walter Bratton

I've written so many verses and keep on writing so many more that I became afraid that if I didn't write them into one…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression…

— Alfred Nobel

As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of…

— Dylan Thomas

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy…

— Dr. Seuss

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

— Eugenio Montale

I don't claim to be someone that knows every verse in the Bible. I wish I did. I truly do. It just means I…

— Elisabeth Hasselbeck

There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not.

— Ellen Hopkins

I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or the throat of one…

— Robinson Jeffers

I ain't lyin' in my verses I'm just telling you the basics of growin' up with your friends and becoming the one that made…

— Drake

“The books I liked became a Bible from which I drew advice and support; I copied out long passages from them; I memorized new…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . .

— Wilford Woodruff