It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped up: 'I got things to do today, people to see, things to say. ' I wrote about a dozen verses for it, but no song needs to be that long unless you're Bob Dylan. So when we recorded it I started to tear it down to some of the lines I thought were the funniest.
Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.
Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.
Leaving Verses Poems Quotes To say goodbye Isn't a pain Unless you're never going. . . ! (Tee hee)
I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.
When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses
The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.
Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.
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.
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.
As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.
I'm not looking for Bible verses to back up a lifestyle of passiveness. I'm looking for Bible verses and life experiences to teach me to live more radically for Christ.
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.
The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.
I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
