Verses Quotes · Page 4

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

— John Donne

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

— Russell Baker

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

— Joseph Joubert

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

— Alice Fulton

The turnaround is when you have a solo in betwixt the verses. You stoppin' to have a solo.

— David Edwards

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

— Horace

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

— Dorothy Allison

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

— James Broughton

No one is saved by good works (Ephesians 2:8-9), but every Christian has been saved for good works (verse 10).

— David Jeremiah

Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.…

— Bible

There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our…

— Isaac D'Israeli

I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring.

— Sturgill Simpson

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

— Moliere

Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they…

— Anonymous

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

— Ambrose Bierce

Faith greatly shaped America's role in the world. We are a country that embodies the Bible verse from Luke chapter 12, verse…

— Marco Rubio

I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

I like to quote the verse, "I can do all things through Him who gives me strength." I kind of envision me…

— Nick Goepper

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind…

— John Drinkwater

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it…

— Paul Valery

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and…

— Anonymous

If you ever, ever, ever meet a grizzly bear, / You must never, never, never ask him where / He is going,…

— Mary Hunter Austin

“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject…

— Plato

And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else…

— Charles Darwin

There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191) Referring…

— Anonymous

The problem has to be answered by means of art, because you can't blast them with bliss. Tat freaks them out even…

— Robert Thurman

And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted…

— John Milton

Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I…

— William Blake

To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman…

— Quintus Ennius

One should put forth great effort in matters of learning. One should read books concerning military matters, and direct his attention exclusively…

— Kato Kiyomasa

My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.

— Hugo Claus

Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

— Cornelia Funke

The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.

— R. K. Milholland

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

— Voltaire

When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses

— Kamila Shamsie

“You can't just add a smattering of verses to a humanistic worldview.”

— Joseph Stephen

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

— Hunter Parrish

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton