With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe! — William Falconer Copy Share Image
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose. — James Payn Copy Share Image
The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose. — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. — Dorothy Parker 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
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
May God bless all the Mothers that give of themselves and tend to their household needs before the needs of self. For… — M S Lowndes Copy Share Image
With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to… — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. /… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
On paper curiously shaped Scribblers to-day of every sort, In verses Valentines ycled'd To Venus chime their annual court. I too will… — Henry George Bohn Copy Share Image
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
It's a bit of the very last verse from Paradiso- Dante's Paradise. 'My will and my desire were turned by love, the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of John Calvin, I kissed it,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I know that one of the things that I really did to push myself was to write more formal poems, so I… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Flexibility, openness and softness are consorting with life. When you are rigid and you know the answer and don't listen to other… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou. — Edward Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. -Proverbs 1:8 — Bible Copy Share Image
