Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding. — King James I Copy Share Image
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so. — Catullus Copy Share Image
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse; — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother. -Proverbs 15:20 — Bible Copy Share Image
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really… — Phil Cooke Copy Share Image
Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“I allowed him to curse at me aloud My sorrows swelled bigger in size so did my sighs… From the poem- FROM… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse,… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have read that during the process of canonization the Catholic Church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although I… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
" Science is beginning to encroach on every level of our volition". And to me, that is a frightening social concept. It… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal… Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is… — C. S. Lewis 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
There are television sets in every home, every restaurant, every hotel room, every shopping mall-now they’re even small enough to carry in… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
“Come fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of repentance fling: The bird of Time has but a… — William De Witt Hyde 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
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
“If you are looking for verses with which to support slavery, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the LORD. -Proverbs 18:22 — Bible Copy Share Image
![“The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we end up conforming, following everyone else. We want to be stronger so we lead that life inside, thinking of ourselves as these great brave souls. I literally thought when I was 15 that I…” quote by Katie Melua](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40b/katie-melua-7464_brave_the-last-verse-in-my-secret-life-complet_2702920.png)
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