Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.
Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.
The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower
The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech. '
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Every time we equip the church with a verse, chapter or a story from the Bible, we're really placing another weapon in the hands of the Holy Spirit that He uses to challenge and strengthen the church. I think that's very important.
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.
Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
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. "
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.
My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.
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.
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write songs and the reasons I write songs. I write songs to help me understand life a little more. I write songs to get past things that cause me pain. And I write songs because sometimes life makes more sense to me when it's being sung in a chorus, and when I can write it in a verse.
What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?