“The fact that you can write verse is in itself a certificate that you can write prose.”
Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931) American poet
What It Means to Be a Poet in America (1926)
“To write a verse or two is all the praise
That I can raise.”
Praise, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593–1633Related quotes
“Despise me not
And not be queasy
To praise somewhat
Verse is not easy”
J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) American writer
'For my Contemporaries' from - The Helmsman 1942
Epigrams
“I find free verse very, very difficult to write.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) American poet
“Thy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised)
Linking our England to his Italy.”
Robert Browning The Ring and the Book
Book XII: The Book and the Ring, line 873.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
“Mantua, the home of the Muses, raised to the skies by immortal verse, and a match for the lyre of Homer.”
Mantua, Musarum domus atque ad sidera cantu
evecta Aonio et Smyrnaeis aemula plectris.
Book VIII, lines 593–594
Punica
“In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.”
Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
As quoted in A Kwanzaa Celebration (1995) by Angela Shelf Medearis, p. 154.
This motto appears on the emblem of the Medium Endurance Cutter USCGC Alex Haley, named after the writer, as "FIND THE GOOD AND PRAISE IT". It is declared to have been his personal motto.
Variant: Find the good — and praise it.
John Hollander (1929–2013) American poet
Interview with J D McCarthy 'The Art of Poetry' no 35 Fall 1985
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Address at Milton Academy, Massachusetts (17 May 1935)
1930s
Variant: Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.