I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
Jackson Browne

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
Robert Morgan

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
John Drinkwater

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
Nicolas Chamfort

Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
John Barton

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.
Howard Nemerov

My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.
Immanuel Velikovsky

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
Louise Bogan

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
Ezra Pound

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

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.
Mark Rylance

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
John Barton

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
John Drinkwater

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
Tracy Chapman

Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse!
Tom Araya

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
James Thomson

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
Kenneth Rexroth