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

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
Paul Cezanne

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
Robert Morgan

The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.
Thomas Bulfinch

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
Robert Morgan

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
John Thorn

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

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan Poe

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
John C. Ransom

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
Paul Engle

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
Quintilian

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.
Jean Philippe Rameau

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.
Dick Smothers

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
Philip Pullman

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.
Marilyn Hacker

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.
Neil Young

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
James Broughton

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
Robert W. Service

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
Theophile Gautier