(53 quotes found)
“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
“After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retrogression.”
T.S. Eliot
“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
Don Marquis
“A poet who reads his own verse in public may have other nasty habits.”
Robert Heinlein
“Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.”
Chet Atkins
“Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.”
Lord Byron
“I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.”
Victor Hugo
“For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.”
Catullus
“A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.”
Jules Renard
“And yet, to times in hope, my verse shall stand,Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.”
William Shakespeare
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