Verse Quotes
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
Moliere
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As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
N. Scott Momaday
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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'
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
Walt Whitman
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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
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The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.
Lord Byron
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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
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Victor Hugo
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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset
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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
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I have always used a great variety of verse forms, especially in my poetry for children. I believe that poetry begins in childhood and that a poet who can remember his own childhood exactly can, and should, communicate to children.
William Jay Smith
