He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the LORD. -Proverbs 18:22 — Bible Copy Share Image
Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD. — Drake Copy Share Image
In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse; — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother. -Proverbs 15:20 — Bible Copy Share Image
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so. — Catullus Copy Share Image
Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. — Dave Beard Copy Share Image
The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever had more fun doing anything in my life than trading verses with Daryl Hall on 'Private Eyes.'… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
For me, before I go on stage, it all depends. Might be a girl, might be an edible, might be a verse,… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“poetry! Indeed, verses are the only thing that your letter lacks, Makar Alexievitch. And what tender feelings I can read in it—what… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an… — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they… — Plato Copy Share Image
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
“Come fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of repentance fling: The bird of Time has but a… — William De Witt Hyde Copy Share Image
The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth Copy Share Image
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding. — King James I Copy Share Image
A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice... — George Herbert Copy Share Image