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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.


Edgar Allan Poe
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.


Horace
Tags: Long Give Last
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.


Thomas Hardy
Tags: Alone Poetry Had
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As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.


N. Scott Momaday
Tags: Poetry Am I Am
I like it when I can sing half of a verse and throw the mike in some kid's face, and they sing it right back to me.
Mitchel Musso
Tags: Me Like Some
Believe it or not, one of the first poets I was aware of was Yeats. I recited 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' at a verse speaking competition when I was eight or nine.
Paul Muldoon
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
Nicolas Chamfort
Tags: Best Men Like
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!
Tom Araya
Tags: Me Because Other
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
Charles Baudelaire
Tags: Poetry Who Always
The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the most direct, bare-bones of content. There is no interference between the head and heart.
Shawn Amos
The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.
Dr. Seuss
Tags: You Out Your
All I really want is a beat from Kanye West. I've met him, and I think he's real cool with us. If I get that beat, I'm going to rap the best verse I ever dropped - even if it's his worst beat.
Domo Genesis
Tags: Best Cool Think
There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry.
Edgar Winter
Tags: Music Poetry You
The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse.
Dorothea Dix
Tags: Who Know Our
As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.
Dylan Thomas
Tags: More Always Life