Verses quotes

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
-- Alexander Pope

#Poetry #Shining #Verses

As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.
-- Andre Benjamin

#Rapper #Window #Verses

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
-- Bayard Taylor

#Charm #Verses #Wooing

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.
-- Brandy Norwood

#Verses

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.
-- Donald Hall

#Form #Verses #Liberating

Universe is just a verse of me, I keep it generic and the ***** take it personally.
-- Drake

#Humble #Generic #Verses

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.
-- Edgar Lee Masters

#This Generation #Generations #Verses

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.
-- Eugenio Montale

#Today #Prose #Verses

Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace.
-- Gautama Buddha

#Buddhist #Thousand #Verses

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
-- Howard Nemerov

#Clear #Verses

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.
-- Howard Nemerov

#Poetic #Verses

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.
-- Hunter Parrish

#Song #Chorus #Verses

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
-- James Broughton

#Cinema #Theater #Verses

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
-- James Payn

#Prose #Verses

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
-- John Barrymore

#Wonder #Modern #Verses

One mark of good verse is surprise
-- John Betjeman

#Surprise #Mark #Verses

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

#Form #Should #Verses

I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric...
-- John Dryden

#Memories #Reading #Verses

Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Time #Rhyme #Verses

When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses
-- Kamila Shamsie

#Broken #Verses

It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.
-- Kenneth Rexroth

#Difficult #Verses

I dabbled in verse and it became my life
-- Patrick Kavanagh

#Verses

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
-- Quintilian

#Satire #Verses

Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken.
-- Rick Warren

#Voice #Listening #Verses

Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.
-- Sidney Lanier

#Sound #Verses

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
-- Victor Hugo

#Criticism #Critics #Verses

Nothing whips my blood like verse.
-- William Carlos Williams

#Blood #Verses

I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.
-- Layzie Bone

#Fall #Satanic #Verses

I can quote you lots of chapters in verse from the bible that are terrible for women. But you can use the bible to either liberate or subjugate women. And it's the same with the Koran.
-- Swanee Hunt

#Terrible #Verses