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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own. -- Quintilian
Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin. -- Jean-Philippe Rameau
Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud. -- Sidney Lanier
Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience. -- Mark Batterson
Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 -- Edward Thomas
Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols. -- John Donne
The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose. -- Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens. -- Ryan Cayabyab
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought -- Edmund Spenser
Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.[Verse 223] -- Gautama Buddha
Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty -- R. S. Thomas
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away. Poetic Verse by -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research of the writer. -- John Constable
Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man. -- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. -- David Ives
This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll help to recreate the most glorious event in the history of the universe. -- Michio Kaku
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
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing -- John Milton
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee. -- Edgar Allan Poe
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine. -- Paul Cezanne
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job. -- Ezra Pound
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. -- Thomas Hardy
Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse. -- Tracy Chapman
You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now. -- Fetty Wap
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand. -- James Thomson
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. -- George Edward Woodberry
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. -- Don Marquis
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
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all. -- Nicolas Chamfort
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
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness. -- John Updike
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
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. -- Anna Quindlen
I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in. -- Tommy Lee
I push myself in a lot of aspects when I write a song. I write a piece and where most people would stop and say, 'Oh, that's the hook right there,' I'll move that to the first four bars of the verse and do a new hook. -- Drake
Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot. -- Gotye
Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.' -- Robert H. Schuller
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise. -- Patrick Stewart
A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing. -- Robert Hunter
Reviewers have called my books 'novels in verse.' I think of them as written in prose, but I do use stanzas. Stanza means 'room' in Latin, and I wanted there to be 'room' - breathing opportunities to receive thoughts and have time to come out of them before starting again at the left margin. -- Virginia Euwer Wolff
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
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
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
Prose proposes, verse reverses. -- Richard Howard
Wisdom married to immortal verse. -- William Wordsworth
Nothing whips my blood like verse. -- William Carlos Williams
All of Victorian verse is pentameter. -- Derek Walcott
Poetry is the eloquence of verse. -- William C. Bryant
One mark of good verse is surprise -- John Betjeman
Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse. -- Alexander Pope
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse. -- Juvenal
I was born to travel and write verse. -- Theophile Gautier
The best grammarian still can't write a verse. -- Dagobert D. Runes
Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs. -- Dorothy Allison
I dabbled in verse and it became my life -- Patrick Kavanagh
You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart. -- Russell Baker
No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people. -- Arthur W. Pink
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible. -- Victor Hugo
Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema. -- James Broughton
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly. -- Moliere
Why do you need a voice when you have a verse? -- Jim Elliot
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. -- Robert Frost
I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars. -- George Carlin
My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better. -- L. Ron Hubbard
The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. -- Walt Whitman
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. -- Jules Renard
Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history. -- John Crowe Ransom
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. -- N.H. Kleinbaum
Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry. -- Alice Fulton
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse. -- Bayard Taylor
Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught -- Frances Ridley Havergal
The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. -- William Wordsworth
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture. -- Pablo Neruda
What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That? -- Dante Alighieri
Love is the strange attractor, the allurement that holds the Uni-verse together. -- Marc Gafni
With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse -- W. H. Auden
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal. -- John Millington Synge
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. -- Paul Valery
Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose. -- James Payn
In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse -- Robert Herrick
Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it. -- Chet Atkins
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. -- John Drinkwater
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. -- Robert A. Heinlein
In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer. -- Propertius
My features & my shows 10 times your pay 50k for a verse no album out -- Nicki Minaj
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. -- John Barrymore
Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken. -- Rick Warren
To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise. -- George Herbert
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song. -- John Keats
We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities. -- Rudyard Kipling
And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse -- John Milton
I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it. -- Hunter Parrish
I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. -- David Ives
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. -- Alfred de Musset
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse. -- John Barton
The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse. -- Thomas Bulfinch
A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice... -- George Herbert
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. -- Edgar Lee Masters
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose. -- Moliere
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one. -- Victor Hugo
My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry. -- John Darnielle
The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off. -- M. Thomas Gammarino
I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it. -- Jimmy Buffett
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse! -- Cornelia Funke
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. -- Horace
With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe! -- William Falconer
The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse. -- Sherry Thomas
Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing." -- Mary C. Neal
There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love. -- Joss Whedon
A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.] -- Horace
This verse made me realize that I've divorced an entire aspect of my life from God: eating -- Matt Cohen
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. -- Charles Churchill

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