91 Verse Quotes for You to Enjoy

I like the sounds of EDM; the guys create new sounds, beautiful sounds. The melodies, it's a little less. I like the kind of melodies I did with Donna Summer, or 'Flashdance,' where you have a verse, a chorus - a song setup. Giorgio Moroder

Beautiful You Song Setup Summer Melodies Kind Guys New Like Sounds Verse Did Where Little Create Less Chorus

On the second verse of 'Tears to Snow,' I talk about rappers and the way they view me now, rappers in the underground world who I might've know for a little bit, or they might've opened a show for me. A lot of them talk crap about me behind my back, and they'll smile in my face. Hopsin

Smile Me World Tears Face Back Way Bit Rappers About Opened Know Talk Underground Verse Lot Snow Behind Crap Little Little Bit Them Might View Show Who Now Second

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. Horace

Water Long Pleasure Give Drinkers Written Nor Verse Last

Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that. J. Cole

Good Day Song Writing Good Day Rapper Sometimes Will Side Please Hook Beat Writing Process Lights Come Like Making Verse Up Jump Maybe Just Happens Process Producer Start

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. J. K. Rowling

Love Garden Passion Slim Response Kind Poetry Volume Genres Felt Always Subject Verse Off Person Literary Story Inadequate Elizabethan

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

Writing Own Extra Add Some About My Own Songs Written Sing Learned Led Verse Verses Friend Just Many

Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse. James Fenton

Quality Free Difficulty Other Extreme Characteristic Easily Brought Poetry Could Obscurity Free Verse Name Imported Verse Just Arts Modernism

In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and interest, in real time. James Fenton

Time Song Dramatic Rule Must Attention Arouse Real Verse Itself Yield Same Real Time Interest Meaning Sufficiently

Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness. James Fenton

Man Free Manly State Mad Kinds Restraining More Open Free Verse Device Prairie Verse Than Any Where Form Wholesome Things

At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse. James Fenton

Practice Other Range Kinds Poetic Hymn Reach Ballad Lines Verse Familiar Form Length English Whole Basic Four

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme. James Fenton

Good Genius Owes Variation Variations Poetry Blank Like Does Sound Sounds Lines Verse Same Subtle Theme Measured English Series

The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.' James Fenton

Today You Memory Will Free Prolonged Find Voice Poetry Open Free Verse Term Verse Begins Where Form Aftermath Places Modernism Even Orthodoxy Raised Raising Speech

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically. Jim Capaldi

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history. John Crowe Ransom

History Made Free Free Verse Verse Form

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. John Drinkwater

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

Added Poetry Takes Verse Form Should Here

When the Beatles wrote 'Paperback Writer,' it couldn't have been the same old thing. You can hear so many influences in it, from the blues to Bach, and it's not just verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge chorus. They start off singing a cappella, almost like a Bach chorale, and the song goes into this bluesy guitar riff. Jon Batiste

You Beatles Song Guitar Old Singing Bach Paperback Writer Almost Like Wrote Hear Been Verse Off Same Goes Just Blues Bluesy Influences Old Thing Cappella Many Bridge Chorus Riff Thing Start

Whenever I talk about Christ out loud, or I tweet a verse or say something in reference about Christ, a lot of people lash out and aren't very excited to hear about my love for Christ. Jon Jones

Love People Christ Say Out About Something Excited Talk Hear Reference Verse Lot Loud Very Whenever Tweet Lash

It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he fears banality worse than anything, and therefore, he uses free verse - though free verse is no guarantee against banality. Joseph Brodsky

Free Fears Poet Worse Though No Guarantee Seems Shameful Free Verse He Unthinkable Contemporary Him Verse Banal Banality Than American Just Anything Rhymes Against Use Uses Therefore Guarantee

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. Jules Renard

Beautiful Wings Feet Line Verse Twelve Two

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