I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... — John Dryden 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
Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with… — Henry F. Schaefer, III Copy Share Image
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The summer lasted a long long time, like verse after verse of a ballad, but when it ended, it ended like a… — Ardyth Kennelly Copy Share Image
We pray that God would touch you and fill your life afresh with His grace and mercy so youll know that you… — M S Lowndes Copy Share Image
I've always been a spontaneous singer. And all the stuff that you hear on the end of the songs, what they call… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
In Matthew, chapter 6, verse 21, the scriptures teach us that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. My… — Ted Strickland Copy Share Image
We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
“Still must the poet as of old, In barren attic bleak and cold, Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to Such things as… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I will not listen to your verse on an empty stomach!" declared the Vicomte. "You have no soul," said Philippe sadly. "But… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“Isn't it interesting that in Acts 11, at the end of verse 26, it says, "The disciples were called Christians first at… — Chris Tomlin Copy Share Image
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word… — Alasdair Gray 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
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
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
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
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth 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
There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself /… — Conor Oberst 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
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories as a reader - I don't know how old I was, quite young - was a poem… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your… — Connie Chung Copy Share Image
Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever had more fun doing anything in my life than trading verses with Daryl Hall on 'Private Eyes.'… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image