Verses Quotes

Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.

Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken.

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.

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

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

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

It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.

I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.

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.

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

Nothing whips my blood like verse.

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.

What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?

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.

I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.

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.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

All of Victorian verse is pentameter.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

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.

One mark of good verse is surprise

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.

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

The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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