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Here are the quotes with the word verse in them. If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy 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 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. — Anna Quindlen

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

-Thomas Hardy

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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

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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.

-Anna Quindlen

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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

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I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

-Howard Nemerov

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

-Don Marquis

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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

-Alfred de Musset

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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

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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.

-Charles Baudelaire

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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

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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

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

-Robert Morgan

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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

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

-John Drinkwater

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

-Denis Johnson

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And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

-James Payn

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I was born to travel and write verse.

-Theophile Gautier

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

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