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Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.
Jon Bon Jovi
2.
Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken.
Rick Warren
3.
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.
Edgar Lee Masters
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I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
John Barrymore
8.
When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses
Kamila Shamsie
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
Moliere
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Victor Hugo
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I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
Howard Nemerov
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Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.
Sidney Lanier
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It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.
Kenneth Rexroth
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I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.
Layzie Bone
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
Quintilian
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan Poe
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My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.
L. Ron Hubbard
19.
There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.
Joss Whedon
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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
Bayard Taylor
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I can quote you lots of chapters in verse from the bible that are terrible for women. But you can use the bible to either liberate or subjugate women. And it's the same with the Koran.
Swanee Hunt
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All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
Joseph Joubert
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I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.
Brandy Norwood
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Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.
Mark Batterson
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The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.
H. P. Lovecraft
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And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
James Payn
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Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
Jorge Luis Borges
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As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.
Andre Benjamin
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What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?
Dante Alighieri
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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
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I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.
John Dryden
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I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
Leonard Cohen
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I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.
Hunter Parrish
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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
John Drinkwater
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The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.
Donald Hall
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The stuff that I make and the things that I talk about, you have to listen, so if the beat is doing too much, it's going to take you away. If the hook is too distracting, it's going to take you away. The hook just needs to be enough to get you from one verse to the next.
Lupe Fiasco