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Tag Name "Verses" (359)

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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
Bayard Taylor
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
Anne Carson
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In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
Ann Voskamp
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How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.
Horatius Bonar
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Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words.
John Dryden
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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.
Andrew Motion
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This verse made me realize that I've divorced an entire aspect of my life from God: eating
Matt Cohen
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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.
Voltaire
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A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.
Andre Maurois
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The poet who writes free verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.
W. H. Auden
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The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
Walt Whitman
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And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul.
Richard Selzer
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BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.
Ambrose Bierce
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EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
Ambrose Bierce
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Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with Satanic Verses, because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.
Salman Rushdie
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Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.
John Keats
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Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.
Alice Fulton
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint Augustine
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
Alexander Pope
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Alexander Pope
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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
William Blake
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All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.
William Butler Yeats
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Poetry is the eloquence of verse.
William C. Bryant
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