Verse Quotes
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Versed Quotes
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Verses Quotes
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy
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Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet`s abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
Paul Engle
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy
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But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
John Updike
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You even called me stupid in your verse, and I`m almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.
Alex Cunningham
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Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
Andrew Booth
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Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
James Broughton
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What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
Philip Pullman
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What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
Philip Pullman
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The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too.
Pras Michel
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The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them
Rod Sterling
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The heroes of our youth grow old - `the boys of summer in their ruin,` in Dylan Thomas`s verse - yet we seem the same.
Allan Gurganus
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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
Robert Morgan
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The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.
Andrew Bozoian
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The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
Robert Morgan
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The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
Amy Beaner
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The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
Allen Settle
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Sometimes I`ll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren`t clicking. And when they do come to me, I`m in the middle of that same verse!
Tom Araya
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Sometimes I`ll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren`t clicking. And when they do come to me, I`m in the middle of that same verse!
Tom Araya
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Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
Tracy Chapman
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So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
Alisha Marquette
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Poets can`t resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
Alicia Dlugosh
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Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.
Mark Rylance
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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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Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
Alicia Dlugosh
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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
Alisha Marquette
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If a poem is not memorable, there`s probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
Robert Morgan
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If a poem is not memorable, there`s probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
Robert Morgan
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I`ve written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
Jackson Browne
