Verse Quotes
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
Moliere
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
N. Scott Momaday
How you looking like beef jerky, beefing in every verse,
But never beefing in person? Randy Savage.
You wouldn’t snap a Slim Jim,
You wouldn’t rip a wrapping on Christmas in Santa’s attic
With the hands of Eddie Scissors…ain’t you average?
Royce da 5'9"
Bad Meets Evil'
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan Poe
The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
Walt Whitman
The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
Walt Whitman
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
Moliere
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
Robert Frost
When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person.
Emily Dickinson
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.
Alfred Austin
As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.
Ezra Pound
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.
Edgar Allan Poe
The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.
Lord Byron
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Victor Hugo
I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.
Ringo Starr
The Beatles
