There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.
Limericks don't come from Limerick. But it comes from that between the verses when they used to have those competitions that they would put in the refrain, "follow me up, follow me up, follow me up to Limerick Town. "
Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
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.
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age.
Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing; clings to his form and manners, whilst poets have often nothing poetical about them except their verses.
I dabbled in verse and it became my life
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.
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.
All of Victorian verse is pentameter.
Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken.
When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses
Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.
Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.