As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city, Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made, They've built (it well may make… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. -Ephesians 5:33 — Bible Copy Share Image
But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. It's a different God,… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they… — Hugo Claus Copy Share Image
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what… — Alejandro Amenabar Copy Share Image
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me-… — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
May Gods many blessings be yours forever more and may you know youre valued aAnd loved by the Lord. Especially on this… — M S Lowndes Copy Share Image
When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ… — Pierre de Ronsard Copy Share Image
The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
This birthday verse is little and I want you to know and see, that you're someone very special especially to me. — Susan Smith Copy Share Image
I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
“A book of verses underneath the bough A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou Beside me singing in the… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens. — Ryan Cayabyab Copy Share Image
How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should,… — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)” — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five… — Joseph C. Lincoln Copy Share Image
Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement… — John Constable Copy Share Image
O innocent victims of Cupid, Remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid, To let a kiss… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the concordance of Nicola Six's kisses there were many subheads and subsections, many genres and phyla - chapter and verse, cross-references,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no… — John Dryden Copy Share Image