ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been… — Bliss Perry Copy Share Image
The Qur'an not only lacks any earthly punishment for someone who abandons Islam, it even includes verses that imply that such a… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse, and then they… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I went to visit a friend of mine, a writer name Troy Seal, a songwriting fool. He's had a ton of hits.… — Donnie Fritts Copy Share Image
I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
I just chuck a bunch of words down and whether they find themselves into a song... I have lots of weird notes… — Thomston Copy Share Image
Ignorance is in relationship to content; it is not just a spirit of ignorance. In verse 21 it speaks of "the truth… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
It is incumbent upon the Aghsan, the Afnan and My kindred to turn, one and all, their faces towards the Most Mighty… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
It's not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, "The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin'… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trust that The Uni-verse knows your bills, knows you need to eat and knows your heart much better than even you do,… — Mastin Kipp Copy Share Image
His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse,… — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said… — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
The Lord Buddha was once asked by a disciple to sum up the whole of His teaching in one verse. He replied:… — Arthur E. Powell Copy Share Image
Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
So when I'm killed, don't wait for me, Walking the dim corridor; In Heaven or Hell, don't wait for me, Or you… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I'm proud to say I'm the only Slaughterhouse member who has not rewritten a verse yet, and that's the ongoing joke in… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get… — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
