Fine Quote by Paul Valery

“All scriptures are possibilities.”

— Lailah GiftyAkita

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST…

— Ezra Pound

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

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create…

— Aldous Huxley

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

— James Payn

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

“Gradually, the concrete enigma I labored at disturbed me less than the generic enigma of a sentence written by a god. What type of…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit…

— Jojo Moyes

Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research…

— John Constable

Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow