Quotes About Verse

Strophe and counterstrophe reached their epode.

DETCHANT (n.) That part of a hymn (usually a few notes at the end of a verse) where the tune goes so high or low that you suddenly have to change octaves to accommodate it.

It's a rather joyous song," Cohen said when Various Positions was released. "I like very much the last verse—'And even though it all went wrong, / I'll stand before the Lord of Song / with nothing on my lips but Hallelujah!

The Almeida's artistic director, Rupert Goold, brought me Mike Bartlett's 'King Charles III' with the slightly apologetic warning that it was in blank verse, but, of course, that appealed to me.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.

In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar.

It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.

Karen Owens has captured this witty little paradox in equally engaging verse:   Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind. The god-side of our ancient mentality, at least in a certain period of history, usually or perhaps always spoke in verse. This means that most men at one time, throughout the day, were hearing poetry (of a sort) composed and spoken within their own minds.

Oh, God. She'd now have to invent a bawdy verse on the spot. She'd never had to improvise so much in her entire life as she had in the last five minutes. Improvise being another word for lie, of course.

They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.

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.

Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' And what brings me peace is the scripture.

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.