Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not… — Martial Copy Share Image
Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides… — Phineas Fletcher Copy Share Image
I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon… — Hafez Copy Share Image
I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
It's just interesting to me that the physical enactment of that mind moving has gradually changed for you in the last few… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a chorus, an A and… — David First Copy Share Image
I always knew about as a kid, knew that that particular injury at [my grandfather's] finger had been caused in that disaster… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
The verses talked about other Prophets as brothers preaching the same unifying script of mankind, showing every man and woman the way… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves! — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It represents a Bible verse I wear on my shoe. Philippians 4:13. It says 'I can do all things through Christ who… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
It is true Christians have done terrible things throughout history. But they've always been acting in opposition to their Christian faith. There… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“...The verses of Byron, Keats or Poe are real whether they are in bootleg form or not. You can still read them… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have wonderful band mates that make music that I'm forced to listen to for hours on end until I come up… — Nikki Jean Copy Share Image
So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
I can quote you lots of chapters in verse from the bible that are terrible for women. But you can use the… — Swanee Hunt Copy Share Image
They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the… — Francis George Copy Share Image
![“I always knew about as a kid, knew that that particular injury at [my grandfather's] finger had been caused in that disaster that killed his brother-in-law, my grandmother's brother. And he never talked about his own brother's death to me. My mother told me about that and told me about the impact…” quote by Dwight Yoakam](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3a0/dwight-yoakam-9632_brother_i-always-knew-about-as-a-kid-knew-that-t_1539468.jpg)
