When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man… — William Shakespeare 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
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
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian.What you… — Esaias Tegner Copy Share Image
The stuff that I make and the things that I talk about, you have to listen, so if the beat is doing… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject… — Plato Copy Share Image
If you ever, ever, ever meet a grizzly bear, / You must never, never, never ask him where / He is going,… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“sometimes i don't know, which moment which cool gust of wind will come, and enchant me tousling my hair and my heart,… — Sanober Khan 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
Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I like to quote the verse, "I can do all things through Him who gives me strength." I kind of envision me… — Nick Goepper Copy Share Image
“blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear,… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
