Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.
Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians - they would ask us, "What's the shortest verse in the Bible?" and I was the one who always said "John 11:35" straightaway. It stayed with me, the Bible has stayed with me.
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty
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.
A translation in verse. . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
I think participating in "Gishwhes" is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a fast food restaurant in Shakespearean verse or jump out of airplanes among many other tasks.
Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet not sacrifice anything essential to its effect as art. Here, as before, successful art can be depended upon to explain itself.
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.
No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.
No one is saved by good works (Ephesians 2:8-9), but every Christian has been saved for good works (verse 10).
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.