History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. — Charles Angoff Copy Share Image
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse — John Milton Copy Share Image
Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't,… — Eminem Copy Share Image
I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every… — Marc-Andre Fleury 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
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
Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
“Suppose she denied him then but favored him some other time? Women are weak and easily conquered by flattery. Especially when men… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life. Do you want to be happy tomorrow? Then sow seeds of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The night in prison was novel and interesting enough… I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Last but not least my family. My brother Tony, I love you. Thank you for beating me up when I was a… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
“Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body; to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Golden Verses So-called because they are "good as gold." They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
“Are there flowers here, your ladyship?' he asked when Pole had gone. 'Flowers?' Lucretia touched a hand to her cheek. 'Surely you… — Lawrence Norfolk Copy Share Image
I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you. — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
I've been writing verses For 60 years...phew! And d'yer know why I did it? T'was especially for you — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse. — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my God. -Psalm 22:10 — Bible Copy Share Image
