I write a lot of children's verse and I think it delights in the language. It pleases people. It's very musical. It's very lyrical and that's certainly a very important aspect of poetry. But I think that a lot of it is verse. I write well-wrought verse.
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.
I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.
The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7. 14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.
The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.
They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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
According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every event and relationship in our lives. As our lives unfold, our biological health becomes a living, breathing biographical statement that conveys our strengths, weaknesses, hopes and fears.
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. "
What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.