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One mark of good verse is surprise
Nothing whips my blood like verse.
All of Victorian verse is pentameter.
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.
Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
Loads of verses don't make it into the finished song.
I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.
I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.
What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?
Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.
My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.
Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.
But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses
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.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken.
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.
I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.
Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.
My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.
The turnaround is when you have a solo in betwixt the verses. You stoppin' to have a solo.
You can always hear me breathing during my verses, but that breathing becomes part of the music.
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
Some artists send their verses, and others record in my studio. Depends. I prefer them being there.
Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.
You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.
Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves!
To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring.
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.