Quotes of Verse - somelinesforyou

“ The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. ”

- John Cage

“ Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ I think a good song is a good song is a good song. ”

- Tim Finn

“ The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry. ”

- L. Schefer

“ Believe it or not, it's my signature song, 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco,' because it's given me a license to sing all the great songs that I could sing. ”

- Tony Benn

“ Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. ”

- Nicolas Boileau

“ I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. - The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Neither rhyme nor reason. - As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets. ”

- Thom Gunn

“ The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs. ”

- Alanis Morissette

“ I wanted a perfect ending… Now, I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next… ”

- Gilda Radner

“ My first attempt to write about Robert Owen was in the form of poetry. Then I turned it into a blank verse poem, but I discovered that I couldn't fit in all the facts, which are fabulous. I decided to rewrite it a third time, still retaining every image I had already written in the first two versions. ”

- Marguerite Young

“ BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters — the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked. ”

- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

“ The powerful play goes on — and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be? ”

- Walt Whitman

“ It was not only the extreme reverence with which the young viewed him, it was the way they began to sing the songs. It was more than just mouthing the lyrics they became deeply connected to his poetry. ”

- Harry Belafonte

“ I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head. ”

- Sylvia Plath

“ Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song. ”

- Luther

“ Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read. ”

- Voltaire

“ Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. ”

- Alfred de Musset

“ A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? ”

- Robert Browning

“ A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ Answer that you are here - that life exists and identity, that 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

“ I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. ”

- Robert Frost

“ I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse. ”

- Evelyn Waugh

“ I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. ”

- John Barrymore
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