And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself /… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your… — Connie Chung Copy Share Image
Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration,… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thank God for the battle verses in the Bible. We go into the unknown every day of our lives, and especially every… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
I can cite a chapter and verse of literature at the times saying Italians don't speak our language, these folks coming from… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Isn't it interesting that in Acts 11, at the end of verse 26, it says, "The disciples were called Christians first at… — Chris Tomlin Copy Share Image
Seeking - really seeking - is more than just reading a few verses from the Bible in the morning and trying to… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
It's natural to be skeptical of a story like Noah. However, the greatest miracle in the Bible is not Noah and the… — Frank Turek Copy Share Image
I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Super silver, Hawaiian haze Sativa, indica, Solomon's grave Genesis, chapter one verse twelve ways Marijuana, hashish, everybody blaze Fuels and fibers, energy… — Aceyalone Copy Share Image
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories as a reader - I don't know how old I was, quite young - was a poem… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with… — Henry F. Schaefer, III Copy Share Image
I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“We indulge in semantics and slippery-slope rhetoric to excuse injustice. We read a few verses about women in a vacuum of literalism… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up… — Joell Ortiz Copy Share Image
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is… — Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr Copy Share Image
The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image