Top Verse Quotes
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.
Patrick Stewart
Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
John C. Ransom
Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.
Thomas D'Evelyn
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy
Oliver Wendell Holmes 
Patrick Stewart 
Thomas Bulfinch 
Robert Morgan 
Edgar Allan Poe 
Paul Cezanne 
John Barrymore 
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One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.
Patrick Stewart 
62% of people like this quote
Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
John C. Ransom
62% of people like this quote
Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.
Thomas D'Evelyn
60% of people like this quote
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
60% of people like this quote
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy
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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
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The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too.
Pras Michel
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I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
John Barrymore
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
Robert Morgan
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