Verses Quotes - Page 16

• Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Reading, People, Pockets

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1825). “The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers”, p.262

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• Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

  William C. Bryant

  Poetry, Poetry Is, Eloquence

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• The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.

  Berton Braley

  Jobs, Best Job, Rivers

  Berton Braley, “Opportunity”

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• What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up everybody with verses and be lyrical and just stand for the art.

  Joell Ortiz

  Art, Children, Nice

  Source: thecomeupshow.com

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• Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

  Salman Rushdie

  Motivational, Satanic, Prophet

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• Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

  Voltaire

  Years, Two, Luxury

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• Leaving Verses Poems Quotes
  To say goodbye
  Isn't a pain
  Unless you're never going...!
  (Tee hee)

  John Walter Bratton

  Goodbye, Pain, Farewell

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• If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

  Rumi

  Struggle, Reading, Learning

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.

  Paul Claudel

  Magic, Everyday, Phrases

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• Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

  Chanakya

  Half, Charity, Letters

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• Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.

  Hugo Claus

  Light, Feet, Laughing

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• My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.

  Hugo Claus

  Long, Enough, Used

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• After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Ideas, Two, Drawing

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• Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Reading, Writing, Lines

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• There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.

  Pierre Bayle

  Book, Firsts, Talent

  Pierre Bayle (1735). “The Dictionary Historical and Critical of Mr. Peter Bayle”, p.779

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• There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Men, Design, Important

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• Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Happiness, Light, Graves

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto I)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Names, Medicine

  Aristotle (1815). “Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry”, p.66

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• Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

  Amy Lowell

  Use, Cadence, Kind

  "Can Grande's Castle". Book by Amy Lowell, 1921.

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• Nothing whips my blood like verse.

  William Carlos Williams

  Blood, Whips

  Quoted in John Thirlwall (ed) The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957).

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• Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.

  Omar Khayyam

  Lonely, Kings, Book

  Omar Khayyam (1898). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám”

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• The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Rhyme, Glorious

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Conservative”, p.53, Arktos

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• When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Men, Understanding

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.89

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• I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

  Charles Lamb

  Believe, Writing, Men

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1856). “The Life and Letters”, p.53

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• I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

  Richard Aldington

  Dream, Silent, Rhyme

  Richard Aldington (1928). “Collected poems”

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