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
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose. — James Payn Copy Share Image
The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house. — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that… — Walt Whitman 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
He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I went to visit a friend of mine, a writer name Troy Seal, a songwriting fool. He's had a ton of hits.… — Donnie Fritts Copy Share Image
Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. -Proverbs 1:8 — Bible Copy Share Image
In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
In the story of the Creation we read: ". . . And behold, it was very good." But, in the passage where… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. — Salvatore Quasimodo 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
You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine… — J Tillman Copy Share Image
I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should,… — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Golden Verses So-called because they are "good as gold." They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
