O innocent victims of Cupid, Remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid, To let a kiss… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in… — George Herbert 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
My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens. — Ryan Cayabyab Copy Share Image
Mom, I just want to say how much you mean to me and how I do appreciate everything you've done for me.… — M S Lowndes Copy Share Image
Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On… — Catherine Maria Fanshawe Copy Share Image
I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
Limericks don't come from Limerick. But it comes from that between the verses when they used to have those competitions that they… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
I don't care whether you are me or Michael Jordan, it makes no difference we are all going to feel that way… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
“A book of verses underneath the bough A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou Beside me singing in the… — Omar Khayyám 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
This birthday verse is little and I want you to know and see, that you're someone very special especially to me. — Susan Smith Copy Share Image
The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
“oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)” — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five… — Joseph C. Lincoln 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
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem… — Andrew Motion 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
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There are two very important things you need to realize from this verse of Scripture. The first one is: Whatever we must… — Chris Oyakhilome Copy Share Image
He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The last verse that became clear to my vision that day was this: "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
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