Versification Quotes & Sayings

So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope. — H.P. Lovecraft

I once believed in Jenner; I once believed in Pasteur. I believed in vaccination. I believed in vivisection. But I changed my views as the result of hard thinking. — Walter Hadwen

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. — Democritus

My experience of what can happen and what actually happens is a world apart, so stop worrying! — Stephen Richards

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. — Edgar Allan Poe

If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. — Donald Harington

You may think that taking a break during an irritating or boring experience will be good for you, but a break actually decreases your ability to adapt, making the experience seem worse when you have to return to it. When cleaning your house or doing your taxes, the trick is to stick with it until you are done. — Dan Ariely

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any other - also for diction. Her words paint. — Mary Russell Mitford

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope. — Samuel Johnson

He had little sympathy...for Mirabel, and little for what I have called the New Sensibility of the early 'twenties, for its flat bleakness, its lawless versification, its unheroic tone, its unintelligible images, its 'modernity' in short. — Jocelyn Gibb

Joy beats oppression. — Jack Terricloth

I believe providing every little smidge of information, while a testament to the author, does not allow the reader to experience the story in a personal way. In light of that, I tried to leave slivers of "white space" that the reader has the opportunity to fill with their own ideas, concepts, and memories. In that way, I invite the reader to become an active part of the journey. — Mark E. Lein

The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope. — H.P. Lovecraft

Saddam is a war criminal and there are no two people who can argue over this. — Muqtada Al Sadr

We shall die all the same. — Anton Chekhov

Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry. — A.E. Housman

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. — Ray Stannard Baker

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed. — Patrick Ness