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Tag Name "Verses" (359)

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At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse.
James Fenton
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A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval Carmina Burana - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.
James Fenton
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Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!
Cornelia Funke
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Every part of every song can have a totally different musical sound, because otherwise if I wanted to go from a verse of one song to the chorus of another, I'd have to go: Uh, okay, press that pedal and then... press that pedal, and then press that pedal off.
Annie E. Clark
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Faith greatly shaped America's role in the world. We are a country that embodies the Bible verse from Luke chapter 12, verse 48 From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded.
Marco Rubio
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A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If he cried over Jerusalem, if he cried over the death of Lazarus, surely he was crying now over the death of her dreams, the death of her marriage.
Karen Kingsbury
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Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls, Limp as bindweed, if it break at all Life's iron crust Man, you must sweat And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build Your verse a ladder.
R. S. Thomas
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When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.
Pierre de Ronsard
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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.
William Congreve
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History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.
Charles Angoff
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The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
Walt Whitman
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The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
Paul Valery
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The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]
Horace
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Any artist that's as serious about making music as I am, I'm cool with that. But if you tellin' me, Man, send me a verse and I'ma send you a verse. No. That's not collaborating. We don't know each other and I'm serous about this music.
Kevin Gates
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What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up everybody with verses and be lyrical and just stand for the art.
Joell Ortiz
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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
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The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
John Thorn
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Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.
Mark Batterson
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Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.
Nicolas Poussin
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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.
Howard Nemerov
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Wisdom married to immortal verse.
William Wordsworth
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The vision and the faculty divine Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.
William Wordsworth
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The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.
Dr. Seuss
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A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]
Horace
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