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Verse Quotes

I’ve given offense by saying I’d as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down Picture Quote #1

That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane Picture Quote #1

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation Picture Quote #1

Don’t be married to a line or verse if it can’t rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn’t fit the outline Picture Quote #1

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don’t settle for mediocre verse Picture Quote #1

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity Picture Quote #1

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Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He’s already spoken Picture Quote #1

What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose Picture Quote #1

I know I should be leaving this climate, I’ve got a verse, but can’t rhyme it Picture Quote #1

Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king Picture Quote #1

Like a good song, life has verses, the goliards had taught me. Each verse has to be sung. It takes all of them to make a song. It is the entire chanson you name, but when you think of it, when you smile, it is a favorite verse that delights your ears Picture Quote #1

In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you’re writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader’s brain Picture Quote #1

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Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them Picture Quote #1

Poets can’t resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse Picture Quote #1

One way of looking at poetic periods is to notice what contemporary interests and knowledge penetrate the best verse written at the time and what moods are permitted in treating of these matters Picture Quote #1

I decided not to tell lies in verse. Not to feign any emotions that I did not feel Picture Quote #1

My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house Picture Quote #1

My verse represents a handle I can grasp in order not to yield to the centrifugal forces which are trying to throw me off of the world Picture Quote #1

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Through the turnings intricate of verse, present themselves as objects recognised, in flashes, and with glory not their own Picture Quote #1

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose, a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought Picture Quote #1

He who finds elevated and lofty pleasures in the feeling of poetry is a true poet, though he has never composed a line of verse in his entire lifetime Picture Quote #1

Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it’s no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both Picture Quote #1

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Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than ‘open form’ or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness Picture Quote #1

Juilliard is wonderful in that they don’t pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse Picture Quote #1

No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job... Poetry.. Remains one person talking to another... No poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic Picture Quote #1

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it’s as close as I come to telling how I do it Picture Quote #1

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose Picture Quote #1

Sometimes I’ll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren’t clicking. and when they do come to me, I’m in the middle of that same verse! Picture Quote #1

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I’ve given offense by saying I’d as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down (Verse Quotes) That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane (Verse Quotes) I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation (Verse Quotes) Don’t be married to a line or verse if it can’t rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn’t fit the outline (Verse Quotes) If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don’t settle for mediocre verse (Verse Quotes) Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity (Verse Quotes) Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He’s already spoken (Verse Quotes) What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose (Verse Quotes) I know I should be leaving this climate, I’ve got a verse, but can’t rhyme it (Verse Quotes) Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king (Verse Quotes) Like a good song, life has verses, the goliards had taught me. Each verse has to be sung. It takes all of them to make a song. It is the entire chanson you name, but when you think of it, when you smile, it is a favorite verse that delights your ears (Verse Quotes) In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you’re writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader’s brain (Verse Quotes) Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them (Verse Quotes) Poets can’t resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse (Verse Quotes) One way of looking at poetic periods is to notice what contemporary interests and knowledge penetrate the best verse written at the time and what moods are permitted in treating of these matters (Verse Quotes) I decided not to tell lies in verse. Not to feign any emotions that I did not feel (Verse Quotes) My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house (Verse Quotes) My verse represents a handle I can grasp in order not to yield to the centrifugal forces which are trying to throw me off of the world (Verse Quotes) Through the turnings intricate of verse, present themselves as objects recognised, in flashes, and with glory not their own (Verse Quotes) In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose, a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought (Verse Quotes) He who finds elevated and lofty pleasures in the feeling of poetry is a true poet, though he has never composed a line of verse in his entire lifetime (Verse Quotes) Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry (Verse Quotes) 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 Quotes) But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it’s no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both (Verse Quotes) Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than ‘open form’ or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness (Verse Quotes) Juilliard is wonderful in that they don’t pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse (Verse Quotes) No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job... Poetry.. Remains one person talking to another... No poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic (Verse Quotes) Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it’s as close as I come to telling how I do it (Verse Quotes) What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose (Verse Quotes) Sometimes I’ll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren’t clicking. and when they do come to me, I’m in the middle of that same verse! (Verse Quotes)

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