Poetry Quote by Sidney Lanier

I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.

— Louise Erdrich

“Nobody gets to tell me how my story ends but me, she thought, and the words were true enough that she repeated them aloud:…

— Seanan McGuire

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

— Alexander Pope

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.

— William Carlos Williams

Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.

— Mark Batterson

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's…

— Ezra Pound

Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age,…

— John Milton

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

— David Ives

I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice always."

— Mary C. Neal

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

— Louise Bogan

Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving characters around…

— Nick Laird

Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

— Cornelia Funke