quotes about Verses
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As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.
-- Andre Benjamin -
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
-- Bayard Taylor -
I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.
-- Brandy Norwood -
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The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.
-- Donald Hall -
Universe is just a verse of me, I keep it generic and the ***** take it personally.
-- Drake -
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.
-- Edgar Lee MastersSource : Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.66, Prestwick House Inc
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Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.
-- Eugenio Montale -
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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 -
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
-- Howard Nemerov -
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 -
I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.
-- Hunter ParrishSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
-- James Broughton -
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
-- James PaynSource : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
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I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
-- John Barrymore -
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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
-- John DrinkwaterSource : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.5, Library of Alexandria
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I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric...
-- John Dryden -
Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.
-- Jon Bon Jovi -
When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses
-- Kamila Shamsie -
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It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.
-- Kenneth Rexroth -
I dabbled in verse and it became my life
-- Patrick KavanaghSource : "Tarry Flynn".
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Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken.
-- Rick Warren -
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Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.
-- Sidney Lanier -
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
-- Victor Hugo -
Nothing whips my blood like verse.
-- William Carlos Williams -
I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.
-- Layzie Bone -
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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 HuntSource : Source: www.pbs.org