Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand. — James Thomson Copy Share Image
One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse,… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning… — Tammy Faye Bakker Copy Share Image
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
I like the sounds of EDM; the guys create new sounds, beautiful sounds. The melodies, it's a little less. I like the… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
“Did I live the spring I’d sought? It’s true in joy, I walked along, took part in dance, and sang the song.… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“I’ve reached the vanishing point without you. Here my heartache begins with your pain trying to find an unborn start in this… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
“O Don Quixote, wise as thou art brave, La Mancha's splendor and of Spain the star! To thee I say that if… — Cervantes Copy Share Image
“Man disavows, and Deity disowns me; Hell might afford my miseries a shelter; Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all Bolted against… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to… — Dick Smothers Copy Share Image
“I swing like a pendulum between the darkness and the light, sometimes it feels like gallows other times it feels like flight.” — Collette O'Mahony Copy Share Image
“A poet not only has to observe but also absorb all the emotions objectively in order to express them in verse. Only… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“once ruffle-skirted vanity table where I primped at thirteen, opening drawers to a private chaos of eyeshadows lavender teal sky-blue, swarms of… — Barbara Blatner 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
