There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
The Profit and Loss Statement tells you a lot about how your business is doing. It can also help you to determine… — Darren L Johnson Copy Share Image
Nowadays, mindfulness has become a catch-all word, but the general principle of trying to be more conscious and aware in our daily… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ… — Pierre de Ronsard Copy Share Image
The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Kaz came to Switzerland where I was teaching to share with me [Heart Sutra] wondrous insight. There he and I worked on… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist. — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to… — Matsuo Bashō Copy Share Image
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
It's just interesting to me that the physical enactment of that mind moving has gradually changed for you in the last few… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. — Charles Angoff Copy Share Image
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
I just chuck a bunch of words down and whether they find themselves into a song... I have lots of weird notes… — Thomston Copy Share Image
I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
May Gods many blessings be yours forever more and may you know youre valued aAnd loved by the Lord. Especially on this… — M S Lowndes Copy Share Image
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
