Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every… — Marc-Andre Fleury Copy Share Image
I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't,… — Eminem Copy Share Image
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove… — Anonymous 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
And I just hope that I'm forgiven for carin bout how they livin and loanin a little money and keepin em outta… — Drake Copy Share Image
I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
My hermeneutics is when I see verses in Scripture that are "apparent" contradictions - I don't believe they are contradictions - I… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
My life is like a song and I think I know the words, And as I start to sing along the whole… — MURS Copy Share Image
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“I don’t think Bible verses were meant to be thrown like grenades at each other. They were meant for us to use… — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. — Rumi Copy Share Image
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth. — George Carey Copy Share Image
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery,… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
“I'd rather make my crib a house of God and pray directly to God verses, than listening to this hypocritical leaders/priest experiencing… — Napz Cherub Pellazo Copy Share Image
I love to write rhymes that have that perfect jingle. You'll know what I'm saying if it makes your Heart tingle. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning… — Tammy Faye Bakker Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were… — Martin Popoff Copy Share Image
A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.] — Horace Copy Share Image
When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as… — Pierre de Ronsard Copy Share Image
Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image