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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: Jorge Luis Borges Howard Nemerov Rick Warren Alexander Pope James Payn Layzie Bone Bayard Taylor Hunter Parrish Sidney Lanier Quintilian Joseph Joubert Andre Benjamin John Barrymore James Broughton Dante Alighieri Lupe Fiasco Swanee Hunt Patrick Kavanagh Joss Whedon William Carlos Williams John Dryden Derek Walcott Leonard Cohen L. Ron Hubbard Edgar Allan Poe John Betjeman Victor Hugo John Drinkwater Donald Hall Kenneth Rexroth Kamila Shamsie Edgar Lee Masters Moliere
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

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

7.
When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses
Kamila Shamsie

8.
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
Jorge Luis Borges

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

10.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
Moliere

11.
Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
James Broughton

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

14.
Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.
Sidney Lanier

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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

17.
There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.
Joss Whedon

18.
I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.
Layzie Bone

19.
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
Quintilian

20.
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

21.
All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
Joseph Joubert

22.
Nothing whips my blood like verse.
William Carlos Williams

23.
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
Bayard Taylor

24.
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.
John Dryden

25.
All of Victorian verse is pentameter.
Derek Walcott

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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

27.
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

29.
The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.
Donald Hall

30.
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

31.
One mark of good verse is surprise
John Betjeman

32.
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

33.
I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.
Brandy Norwood

34.
Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.
Mark Batterson

35.
The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.
H. P. Lovecraft

36.
Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
Alexander Pope

37.
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
James Payn

38.
Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
Jorge Luis Borges

39.
As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.
Andre Benjamin

40.
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

41.
What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?
Dante Alighieri