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Source: The complete works in verse and prose of George Herbert: for the 1. time fully collected and collated with the orig. and early editions and mss. and much enl. ...

“To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.”

Seems Feet Arms Gun Verses

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower”

Enormous Prose Poetry Is Gaps Verses Good Poetry

Author:Michael Longley

“I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.”

People Thinking Interest Ought Verses

Book:Trains and buttered toast: selected radio talks

Source: Trains and buttered toast: selected radio talks

“One mark of good verse is surprise”

Mark Surprise Verses

Book:Sweet Songs of Zion: Selected Radio Talks

Source: Sweet Songs of Zion: Selected Radio Talks

“...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll, Or thunder sound,—the champion of the storm!— Then I feel envy for immortal words, The rush of living thought; oh! then I long To dash my feelings into deathless verse, That may administer to unborn time, And tell some lofty soul how I have lived A worshipper of Nature and of Thee!”

Source: An Universal Prayer ; Death ; A Vision of Heaven ; and A Vision of Hell &c. &c

“But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.”

Thinking World Helping Used Dying Speech Vices Dinner Used To Be Verses Quotations

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!”

Prose Scholar Verses Scholarship

Author:Moliere

“The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.”

May Used Poetry Term Simple Subjects Involved Mathematics Nine Rhythm Consideration Ethical Verses Rhyme Convenient Meter Pedantry

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval Carmina Burana - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.”

Kind Doe Enough Use Age Stuff Instance Comparison Poetry Is Latin Verses Rhyme Indispensable Glances Medieval Crude

Author:James Fenton

“A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.”

May Turns Sacrifice Delight Verses Sermons

Author:George Herbert

“Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.”

Art Names Quality Difficulty Extremes Characteristics Verses Obscurity Modernism Free Verse

Author:James Fenton

“The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where "open form" or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term "heightened speech".”

Today Form Voice Term Memories Speech Raised Verses Orthodoxy Modernism Aftermath Free Verse

Author:James Fenton

“The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater.”

“On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.”

Mind Two Sometimes Whole Would Be Form Lines Emotion Brain Source Flow Drinking Notion Occasions Beer Stomach Bubbles Verses Vague Suggestions Destined Pits Make Out Pints

Author:A. E. Housman

“Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.”

Poetry Shining Verses Brighter

Book:Miscellanies. In Four Volumes

Source: Miscellanies. In Four Volumes

“How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written!”

Should Has Beens Might Written Ought Chapters Verses Venture

Book:Handy Andy

Source: Handy Andy

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