With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe! — William Falconer Copy Share Image
I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. — David Ives Copy Share Image
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar. — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Time ain’t nothing, but time. It’s a verse with no rhyme, And it all come down to you. «El tiempo solo es… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
“Come back now and help me with these verses. Whisper to me some beautiful secret that you remember from life.” — Donald Justice Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
For me, before I go on stage, it all depends. Might be a girl, might be an edible, might be a verse,… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a chorus, an A and… — David First Copy Share Image
Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
I always knew about as a kid, knew that that particular injury at [my grandfather's] finger had been caused in that disaster… — Dwight Yoakam 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
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? E'en in Australia art thou still more hot Rough winds do shake the darling… — Manny Rayner Copy Share Image
Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life. Do you want to be happy tomorrow? Then sow seeds of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The night in prison was novel and interesting enough… I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body; to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A few years back, even the most commercial pop could have some artistic value. Someone who liked underground music could appreciate Justin… — Jorge Elbrecht Copy Share Image
Here, then, is a simple rule of thumb for all of us to apply: If the words of Jesus challenge something I… — Michael L. Brown Copy Share Image
Kaz came to Switzerland where I was teaching to share with me [Heart Sutra] wondrous insight. There he and I worked on… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her. -Proverbs 31:28 — Bible Copy Share Image
We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. — Charles Angoff Copy Share Image
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image