139 Quotes About Verse

I could not eat a kangaroo. But many fine Australians do. Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs Prefer him in tasty kangaroo-meringues.

A great verse can have a great influence on the soul of a language.

Versifying left her cold. Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for God to rescue you when it was up to you. Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world.

I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child.

I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.

I'll never let you brood over my numbnessAs long as your onion love I peel and cryI'll never let you taste my salty confusionsAs long as your closed-door I latch and sigh - From the poem- Behind

You plucked me like a flowerfrom your secret garden;pressing my petals to your lips,inhaling deeply of my fragrance.You placed me in your lapelso you could feel my presenceclose to your heart.And when the flower faded,you cast it asideunaware that I had bloomedin a million other ways.

I swing like a pendulum between the darkness and the light,sometimes it feels like gallowsother times it feels like flight.

The time has come,' the Walrus said, To talk of many things:Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — Of cabbages — and kings —And why the sea is boiling hot — And whether pigs have wings