91 Verse Quotes for You to Enjoy

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. Thomas Hardy

Alone World Inquisition Poetry Had Him Said Verse Moved Galileo Might

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. Robert Frost

Writing Free Down Net Tennis Free Verse Like Verse Playing

There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' And what brings me peace is the scripture. Tammy Faye Bakker

God Me You Bible Peace Christ Will Thanks Everything Says Give Concerning Verse Scripture Jesus Brings

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop. Dr. Seuss

You You Can Do It Book Writing Problem Feeling Tremendously Kids Easy Knocked Like Read Forces Because Sound Friday Verse Off Stop The Problem With Afternoon Successful Helps Thing Rainy

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs. Dorothy Allison

Free Teenagers Free Verse Around Verse Walking Legs Two

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific. Dr. Seuss

You Writing Problem Way Out Rate Attack Throw Main Mortality New Come Terrific Got Line Lines Verse New Way Your Figure Whole Away Right Four Fourth

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Cincinnati Worse Comfort Maker Sounds Verse Chicago Rough

Mike is the craziest person. He's scattered; he's all over the place. When you hold him down and tell him, 'This is what you're doing,' he's fantastic. But you have to hold him down. Like, when he had to write his verse for 'Hello Nasty,' we had to take his phone away to get him to do it. Ad-Rock

You Phone Down Tell Scattered Write Take Had He Over Like Him Doing Nasty His Verse Person Get Hold Place Craziest Fantastic Mike Hello Away

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. Andrew Motion

Poets these days, like artists and composers, have won for themselves almost unlimited freedom. You can pass yourself off as a painter without being able to draw, as a composer without being conscious of key relationships, and as a poet without making yourself familiar with traditional verse forms. Anne Stevenson

Freedom You Yourself Key Poet Relationships Unlimited Draw Able Composer Composers Poets Almost Days Like Without Pass Making Traditional Verse Off Won Familiar Artists Being Forms Themselves Painter Conscious

In contrast to our sinking taste, there has been a revival of interest in verse drama in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. The movement has been slow but sure and, above all, modest in its demands. Austin Clarke

Slow Sinking Drama Elsewhere Our Has-Been Above Demands Sure Been Verse Scotland Revival Contrast Taste Movement Interest Modest England

My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that. Ben Folds

Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out. Carlene Carter

Tired Song Out Point Know Verse Get Forgot Whenever Burnt

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it. Chet Atkins

You People Think Verse Again Next Meant

Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse. Christian Camargo

You Wonderful Way One-Way Give Shakespeare Pick Attention Method Juilliard Verse Lot Just Just One Working Acting Palette

Common would come to my house and give me a freestyle verse. I'd make a new beat for it and put it with something else. That's how I met Eminem - he came to my house back when he first started. He gave me a bunch of freestyles, and that's how we built a relationship. Everyone came to my house. Clinton Sparks

Me Relationship First Met Gave Else Back Everyone Would Give Something Give Me Something Else Eminem Beat He Put New Come Freestyle House Make Built How Came Verse Bunch Common Started

The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse. Dorothea Dix

Remember Soil Our Those Sung Besides Immortal Poets Know Well Houses Praises However Sake Cultivation Verse Celebrated Green Native Lovely Justly Who European Gardens Daisy

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job. Ezra Pound

Good Man Good Job Job Verse Wants Who

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first. Feist

Myself First Living Wrote Verse Suddenly Found Second

To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other. Florence King

Good Achieve Language Good Taste Other Rarefied Entirely Tailored French Wrote French Language Meter Verse Pinnacle Fits Very Taste Uniquely Plays

'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together. Gary Numan

Day Together Song Few Other One Day Minutes Finish Main Songs Part Talking Got Verse Normal Friends Different After Frustrated Realized Then Electric Play Started Playing Two

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. George Edward Woodberry

Knowledge Hidden Seldom Without Deal Verse Meanings

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