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I was born to travel and write verse.
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.
Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.
Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Democracy is not always chapter and verse, written out in advance.
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
Big Sean could get on a verse with anybody and probably annihilate them.
It was the enchantment of spoken verse that led me to write for children.
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
Sometimes I write from the end of the verse to the beginning of the verse.
The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.
My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now.
I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.
I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not.
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
I never freestyle. I always give a written verse cause I just don't wanna go out like that.
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
If you've got a verse with a lot of rhythm, you want to pair it with something that doesn't.
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
On my new song, 'Eyes on Me,' at the end of each verse, I just kind of say something to my daughter.
When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
There are cases where you can say a lot more in a hook than you can by making things more complex in a verse.