Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses."
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Verses
41 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one."
Moliere
Playwright, Actor
"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee."
L. Ron Hubbard
Author
"My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better."
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"All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure."
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"What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?"
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"As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are."
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"I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional."
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"I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it."
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"Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men."
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