The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
This verse made me realize that I've divorced an entire aspect of my life from God: eating — Matt Cohen Copy Share Image
“Come back now and help me with these verses. Whisper to me some beautiful secret that you remember from life.” — Donald Justice Copy Share Image
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Time ain’t nothing, but time. It’s a verse with no rhyme, And it all come down to you. «El tiempo solo es… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
“a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand; but now it hurts,… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible. — Gloria Gaynor Copy Share Image
I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
All right, so there he is, our representative to the world, Mr. Western Civilization, in codpiece and pantyhose up there on the… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
"Face Again" is actually the most George Saunders-y song. Basically the verses, I'm describing a world where love is being killed, and… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
We know that Muhammad waged war against the Qurayshi tribe, his own tribe, and it's from that conflict that much of the… — Rukmini Maria Callimachi Copy Share Image
There are television sets in every home, every restaurant, every hotel room, every shopping mall-now they’re even small enough to carry in… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
My faith, my hermeneutics does not demand that I correlate every verse. In other words, there are often verses that appear, I'm… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The last image created in verse four of this hymn, ["Come, O Thou Glorious King"] that of the promised Messiah coming into… — Eric D. Huntsman Copy Share Image
Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us to respond to… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore… — John Milton Copy Share Image
There are three types of disease: body disease, mind disease, and nervous system disease. When the mind is diseased, the whole body… — K. Pattabhi Jois Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for verses with which to support slavery, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. -Psalm 139:13 — Bible Copy Share Image
The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse: Not only do they say they feel it, but they say… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
Love is the strange attractor, the allurement that holds the Uni-verse together. — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
![“We know that Muhammad waged war against the Qurayshi tribe, his own tribe, and it's from that conflict that much of the concept of jihad and verses that ISIS now uses to justify beheadings come from. A young man just told me that he went back and read this carefully [and saw] the prophet and his…” quote by Rukmini Maria Callimachi](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/32c/rukmini-maria-callimachi-34961_allowing_we-know-that-muhammad-waged-war-against_856700.jpg)
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