The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.
Randy K. Milholland
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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 A. Heinlein
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred De Musset
The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
Rod Sterling
RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguished from prose, mostly dull. Usually (and wickedly) spelled 'rhyme.'
Ambrose Bierce
They're not pointless. I feel they have a place in my personal experience. Like, 'Lake Swimming' — I like the second verse of that song. It's just this dream world about swimming in a lake, but everyone swims in a lake. Everyone knows what that's like.
Laura Veirs
And I'm no expert on the word I can't qoute you chapter and verse But I've heard you love the worst ones too And I'm the proof.
Bobby Pinson
It's a whole other level now, ... He will be one of the premier faces of the NBA. He is. With that being said, he understands there's responsibility that comes with that. It's like the Bible verse he follows, 'To whom much is given, much is expected.'
Michael Hodges
Good metrical rhymed verse, if it's to grip the imagination and stay readable, has to have, as well as those external formal features, the same dynamo of hidden musical dramatic laws as the apparently free verse.
Ted Hughes
Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your back with Dan.'
Connie Chung
[Russell] Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse-with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.
Thomas D'evelyn
...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.
Paul Valery
I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way.
Cotton Mather
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
In her lifetime, (Rice) said she wrote several million poems. The reason for that is she didn't write her letters in prose but in verse. If there was a death in the family, or a wedding or a newborn baby, her gift was a poem. She wrote 75 books and was one of the world's most prolific poets. Her poetry has been translated into 20 different languages.
Mary Hilaire Tavenner
Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.
Chet Atkins
They all always start as an acoustic, living room chorus-and-verse kind of idea.
Dave Dombroski
If it were to be claimed that intentional verse is not yet poetry, then I would equally have the right to claim that the most consummate, most differentiated sound poems are no longer poetry but a singular imitation of another art: music or declamation.
Simon Vestdijk
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this: The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddl.
Ambrose Bierce
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the more notable epigrams of the learned and ingenious Dr. Jamrach Holobom: We know better the needs of ourselves than of others. To serve oneself is economy of administration. In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a .
Ambrose Bierce
It's been the same song, same verse all year long we don't hit the ball when we need too. We just didn't do it. We had the opportunities with runners in scoring position but we don't get it done. We are going get to work tomorrow. We are going to get after it and we aren't going to quit.
Frank Chumbley
SMITHAREEN, n. A fragment, a decomponent part, a remain. The word is used variously, but in the following verse on a noted female reformer who opposed bicycle-riding by women because it 'led them to the devil' it is seen at its best: The wheels go round without a sound -- The maidens hold high revel; In sinful mood, insanely gay, True spinsters spin adown the way From d.
Ambrose Bierce
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
John Barrymore
Everywhere my thought offers and exposes itself to the light of day, and my verse, whether good or bad, always says something.
Nicolas Boileau
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.
Alan Moore
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
Dear Lady be cautious of Cupid, List well to the lines of this verse, To be kissed by a fool is stupid, To be fooled by a kiss is worse.
Ambrose Redmoon
A tympanic resonance, so rich and overpowering that it could give an air of verse to a recipe for stewed hare.
John Mcphee
Most writers of verse have several different personalities. The ideal is to find a style or a method that includes them all.
Ted Hughes
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
Quintilian
[Sue Ellen Cooper of Fullerton launched the society in April 1998. Her inspiration came from the verse] Warning (When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple), ... When I am an old woman I shall wear purple with a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me.
Jenny Joseph
OCCASIONAL, adj. Afflicting us with greater or less frequency. That, however, is not the sense in which the word is used in the phrase 'occasional verses,' which are verses written for an 'occasion,' such as an anniversary, a celebration or other event. True, they afflict us a little worse than other sorts of verse, but their name has no reference to irregular recurrence.
Ambrose Bierce
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
I've never written with the intention of writing hits. I guess I'm a commercial writer, though. My songs do tend to come out two verses, bridge, guitar solo, last verse, and tag. When I've finished a piece I do have my opinion about whether it will sell, of course, but I'm not always right.
Christine Mcvie
He brings a gust of acrid provincial air to the ancient office. He is an angry young prophet rather than a smooth courtier. His verse is angular, savage, robust and very good.
Philip Howard
My motivation comes from the Lord. My favorite verse is, 'Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men ...' (Colossians 3:23). As long as that remains my motivation I can always work hard.
Stephen Mcdowell
It's a neat procedure sometimes Brad (guitar player) would come up with a verse and (the whole band) would add the music and do the finishing work.
Sashya Comito
It is the logic of our times,No subject for immortal verse-That we who lived by honest dreamsDefend the bad against the worse.
C. Day Lewis
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
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
[The lines that most pleased Anderson as composer are in the second verse:] Show the rainbow of your promise/There will be a brighter day. ... I wanted to write something that would convey a spirit of hope.
Dan Anderson
In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year's end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets. . . . Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.
Elizabeth Janeway
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, / A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness- / And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
Edward Fitzgerald
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