Quotes About Verse

But of course: our stories had many characters. Great Perseus or modest Peleus. Heracles or almost-forgotten Hylas. Some had a whole epic, others just a verse.

rhyme being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse (in longer works especially) but the invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter ...

The verses build up the tension, and the choruses release it, letting the joy in. After two choruses, there's usually a bridge, also known as "the middle eight," which is a variation on the verse melody, followed by the final chorus and coda.

My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.

And to belove God, to center in God, has an additional crucial meaning. To belove God means to love what God loves. What does God love? The answer is in one of the most familiar Bible verses, John 3.16: "God so loved the world…

I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be flowing river of verse and all I have to do is learn how to swim.

Might verse not best confuse itself with fate?

EDITOR'S NOTES Poetry Diary of Tolstoy; Dutton, p. 84: "Where the boundary between prose and poetry lies, I shall never be able to understand. The question is raised in manuals of style, yet the answer to it lies beyond me. Poetry is verse: prose is not verse. Or else poetry is everything with the exception of business documents and school books.

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.

La realidad es un manojo de poemas sobre los cuales nadie reclama derechos de autor. Debajo de cada piedra, de cada baldosa, se esconde un poema.

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

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:

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Whoever digs at verse must renounce all idols; he has to break with everything. He cannot have truth for his horizon, or the future as his element, for he has no right to hope. He has, on the contrary, to despair. Whoever delves into verse dies; he encounters his death as an abyss.

Then Luke commits his most grievous error, and I'm not sure I will ever be able to forgive him for it, at least this side of heaven. Luke reports in verse 27 that Jesus explained everything concerning himself in the Old Testament. What was Luke possibly thinking? The greatest Bible lesson of all time, and yet we have not a single word!

We read poems from the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Neil insisted on spilling wine over my carpet.

Força sovint el repte és el silenci, l'espai incert que va de vers a vers, de pregunta a pregunta. Potser el que marca el ritme és el desig, però el desig tan aviat sotmet com allibera, i mai no concedeix treves al sentiment o a l'esperança.

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

All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.

The limerick packs laughs anatomical, into space that is quite economical; but the good ones I've seen, so seldom are clean, and the clean ones so seldom are comical.

A man who does not work should not eat is the most underrated bible verse