Verse Quotes

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. Kenneth Rexroth
Good Natural Building Breath Structures Around Line Verse Any Basic Speech
I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics. Laura Marling
Editing Lyrics Out Tend Never Songs Come Edit Verse Closest Done Closest Thing Just Rewriting Them Cutting Whole Ever Thing
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. Lee Strasberg
Great Poet Feeling Independent Delivered Prose Supreme Accent Because Does Verse Essence Which Reside Actor Great Actor
Nearly all children have a feeling for rhythm in words, for the delicate pattern of nursery rhymes. Many adults have lost this feeling and, if they read verse at all, demand a far cruder music than that which they once appreciated. Louis MacNeice
Music Words Feeling Lost Nursery Once Delicate Adult Demand Read Verse Than Children Rhymes Which Rhythm Pattern Far Many Nearly Appreciated
No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square. Louise Bogan
Competition Hidden More Struggling Verse Square Lousy
With 'Sierra,' this mean girl had all these kids bullying me - and I wrote the first verse and chorus the night before Tae and I came to Nashville. Maddie Marlow
Bullying Me Girl First Before Sierra Kids Had Wrote Nashville Came Verse Mean Chorus Night
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. Marilyn Hacker
You Together Words Syntax Phrases Triple Obliged Poetry Writer Puts Tension Between Particular Look How Line Verse Sentence Sentences Translate Working Whom
'Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons' is a kind of novel in verse about the arc of an urban lesbian love affair - and I suppose there is a certain amount of voyeurism in the consumption of fiction! The 'Sancerre' poems here are more contemplative and about the relationship of the individual to local and wider histories. Marilyn Hacker
Love Death Relationship Lesbian Changing Local Kind Arc About Poems More Individual Consumption Suppose Contemplative Affair Verse Histories Love Affair Fiction Urban Certain Novel Seasons Amount Here Wider
If you've got a verse with a lot of rhythm, you want to pair it with something that doesn't. Max Martin
You Something Got Verse Lot Want Rhythm Pair
I like it when I can sing half of a verse and throw the mike in some kid's face, and they sing it right back to me. Mitchel Musso
Me Face Half Back Kid Some Throw Like Sing Verse Mike Right Right Back
There was a lot of other people that had their own song or their name in a verse in high school. I was just like, 'To stamp my high school career, I gotta get my name in a song.' Mohamed Bamba
People Song School Own Other High High School Had Name Like Gotta Verse Lot Get Just Stamp Career
Tra-la-las and doo-be-do's became a Neil Sedaka trademark. I was the king of the tra-la-las and doo-be-do's in the '50s and '60s. But then when I re-recorded 'Breaking Up,' I started with a verse instead of the doo-be-do's! Neil Sedaka
King Neil Instead Became Trademark Verse Up Breaking Breaking Up Then Started
In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension. Octavio Paz
Work Eyes Decision Own Our Consists Poetic Tension Instinct Verse Close Us Choose Awaits Each Alert
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. Octavio Paz
Risks Experience Liberty Poet Poem Poetry Writes He Himself Verse Each Chances
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine. Paul Cezanne
Pure Clear French Verse Landscape
Believe it or not, one of the first poets I was aware of was Yeats. I recited 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' at a verse speaking competition when I was eight or nine. Paul Muldoon
Competition First Believe Nine Poets Isle Verse Yeats Eight Lake Speaking Aware
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
Best Good Writing Training Strict Say Possible Write Prose Verse Form
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
Too Hook Record He Messed Around Said Got Doing Verse Up Hit Did Ended Sitting Just
I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right. Rachel Platten
Life Music Fight Song Writing First Lost Lyrics Music Video Paper Bit Possibilities Throwing Writing Process True Journals Like True Life Felt None Got Bed Verse Where Different Process Little Little Bit Them Video Really Moment Filling Right
I don't believe in writer's block. I'll get stuck, but being stuck, I'll still write a verse. If you know where you're going, you can always start from there and work your way back. Rakim
Work You Believe Back Way Stuck Write Writer Know Always Still Block Verse Get Going Being Where Your Start
With 'Break The Night,' each verse is saying, 'Nothing's going right today; nothing ever does.' It's about that kind of repetition, it's that kind of mantra you can get in your mind when you're depressed or down, when it's become like a hamster on a wheel - it's very difficult to break. Richard Ashcroft
Today Saying You Mind Become Nothing Down Difficult Kind About Like Does Verse Repetition Very Get Going Wheel Break Depressed Your Mantra Each Ever Right Night
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
Decision Made Reading More Poetry Write Writers No-One Prose Instead Almost Readers Narrative Verse Than Interested
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. Robert W. Service
You Mother Try Poetry Write Talent Verse Hand Any Wants Public Then Means Your
Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty - if we don't understand, we just stay listening to the sound and it's like hearing music. Roberto Benigni
Music Great Writing Listening Poet Beauty Single Every Everybody Dante Stay Like Understand Always Sound Hearing Verse Very Just Moving Creators Universal
Poetry is this gorgeous, complex history rendered in verse and song, a blueprint that can lead you back into the world after you've walked into air. Robin Coste Lewis
History You Song World Gorgeous Back Air Complex Poetry Lead Rendered Verse Walked Blueprint After
The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the most direct, bare-bones of content. There is no interference between the head and heart. Shawn Amos
Heart Simple Sometimes Direct Head Between Most Content Repeat Verse Optional Blues Interference Electricity Bars Even Chorus Four
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