There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The impact of the Yemeni manuscripts is still to be felt. Their variant readings and verse orders are all very significant. Everybody… — Andrew Rippin Copy Share Image
I have read that during the process of canonization the Catholic Church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although I… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it. — Hunter Parrish Copy Share Image
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song. — John Keats Copy Share Image
I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon… — Hafez Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
In the concordance of Nicola Six's kisses there were many subheads and subsections, many genres and phyla - chapter and verse, cross-references,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write it down, sometimes I freestyle. I get lines coming to me randomly throughout the day and I'll jot it… — CJ Fly Copy Share Image
But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious… — Yossi Klein Halevi Copy Share Image
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it… — R. S. Thomas 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
You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The verses talked about other Prophets as brothers preaching the same unifying script of mankind, showing every man and woman the way… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
I was probably 16.I played - I tried to play these songs that I had written. And, this was a common theme… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming… — Anonymous 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
