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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

Authors on Verses Quotes: Howard Nemerov Jorge Luis Borges William Carlos Williams John Dryden Derek Walcott Leonard Cohen Edgar Allan Poe John Betjeman L. Ron Hubbard Victor Hugo John Drinkwater Donald Hall Kenneth Rexroth Edgar Lee Masters Moliere Kamila Shamsie Ralph Waldo Emerson Jon Bon Jovi Brandy Norwood Mark Batterson Eugenio Montale H. P. Lovecraft Rick Warren Alexander Pope James Payn Bayard Taylor Hunter Parrish Layzie Bone Sidney Lanier Quintilian Joseph Joubert Andre Benjamin John Barrymore
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

4.
Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.
Eugenio Montale

5.
I dabbled in verse and it became my life
Patrick Kavanagh

6.
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
John Barrymore

7.
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
Jorge Luis Borges

8.
When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses
Kamila Shamsie

9.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
Moliere

10.
Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
James Broughton

11.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Victor Hugo

12.
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
Howard Nemerov

13.
Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.
Sidney Lanier

14.
It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.
Kenneth Rexroth

15.
I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.
Layzie Bone

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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
Quintilian

17.
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan Poe

18.
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

20.
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
Bayard Taylor

21.
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

22.
All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
Joseph Joubert

23.
Nothing whips my blood like verse.
William Carlos Williams

24.
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.
I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.
Brandy Norwood

26.
Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.
Mark Batterson

27.
The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.
H. P. Lovecraft

28.
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
James Payn

29.
Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
Alexander Pope

30.
Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
Jorge Luis Borges

31.
As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.
Andre Benjamin

32.
What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?
Dante Alighieri

33.
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

34.
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.
John Dryden

35.
All of Victorian verse is pentameter.
Derek Walcott

36.
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

37.
I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.
Hunter Parrish

38.
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
John Drinkwater

39.
The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.
Donald Hall

40.
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

41.
One mark of good verse is surprise
John Betjeman