Quotes about Verse

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.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.