Quotes About Verse

I love to write poetry.

All that is not prose passes for poetry.

Underneath this sable hearseLies the subject of all verse:Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother.Death, ere thou hast slain anotherFair and learned and good as she,Time shall throw a dart at thee.

I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized . . . A poem is a complete little universe. It exists separately. Any poem that has any worth expresses the whole life of the poet. It gives a view of what the poet is.

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

Aristotle stipulates that "the poet and the historian differ not by writing in verse or in prose … The true difference is that one relates what has happened, the other what may happen. Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.

A poem is contained movement.

Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings, Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.

First is a poem, a ballad, out of Scotland. You may say there is no king in it, and of course there isn't, which is what makes it so sad. The last line of the third verse, 'O he might hae been a king' is so sad that I don't like to look at it with both eyes at once.

For example, in the chiasmus used by Isaiah here in the first eight verses, the main message is found in verse 5, where he emphasizes that when a society collapses because of wickedness, everyone is persecuted and oppressed by everyone else.

There are two very important things you need to realize from this verse of Scripture. The first one is: Whatever we must receive from God must come as an act of faith, because God is a Faith-God.

The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.

The last verse that became clear to my vision that day was this: "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God's in Christ Jesus for you."

I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice always."

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower

I'm not a great poetry fan.

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

But you shall not escape my iambics.

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.

He is the English Horace

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.