Humor Quote by Stephen Fry

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

— Sidney Lanier

“We say verse is fun in the doing, True, that’s what we’re saying. And if our rhymes now are only limping, why Muse, the…

— Merlie M. Alunan

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

— James Fenton

“Line by Line, Word by Word, Syllable by Syllable!”

— Carl McKever

“Consequently, to form the experience, the length of the line for a haiku thought must have the same length as the duration of the…

— Kenneth Yasuda

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Rhythm. Life is full of it; words should have it, too. But you have to train your ear. Listen to the waves on a…

— Arthur Gordon

“Poetry is like...first all you have is... A line weaving through your mind Like the tail of a child's kite Unfettered by reason or…

— Vaddey Ratner

“One line lands in a word and one word lands in a line and there you have it the secret of poetry”

— Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore

“A swift rhythm is played out by my hands, a cadence known only to those who have strung tobacco. To many, the meter and…

— Brenda Sutton Rose

“A poetic form is essentially a codified pattern of silence. We have a little silence at the end of a line, a bigger one…

— Don Paterson

The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of…

— Edgar Allan Poe