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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Jules Renard
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.
Lee Strasberg
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
Denis Johnson
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
Moliere
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
James Payn
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
John Updike
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.
Chet Atkins
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.
Jim Capaldi
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.
C. Day Lewis
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
Charles Baudelaire
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
Howard Nemerov
I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
Ted Lange
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.
Howard Nemerov
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
Anna Quindlen
I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.
Joanna Newsom
I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
Howard Nemerov
I was born to travel and write verse.
Theophile Gautier
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
John Barrymore
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