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Letter "V" » verse
«I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way»
«The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them»
«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.»
«Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
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«There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, / Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on; / Whose prose is grand verse, while his verse, the Lord knows, / Is some of it pr - No, 'tis not even prose.»
«Storied of old in high immortal verse / Of dire chimeras and enchanted isles, / And rifted rocks whose entrance leads to Hell.»
«Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.»
«The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.»
«Reads verse and thinks she understands.»
«I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down»
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