Verse Quotes

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

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

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.

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.

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

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

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!