Verse Quotes

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.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

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

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.

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

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

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

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