For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. -Psalm 139:13 — Bible Copy Share Image
The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up… — Joell Ortiz Copy Share Image
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The Qur'an not only lacks any earthly punishment for someone who abandons Islam, it even includes verses that imply that such a… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse, and then they… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“Don’t merely read verses; if that is all we do, we run the risk of deceiving ourselves. Don’t just pile up biblical… — Mike Ashcraft Copy Share Image
I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may… — George Gascoigne Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write it down, sometimes I freestyle. I get lines coming to me randomly throughout the day and I'll jot it… — CJ Fly Copy Share Image
Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the… — Douglas Florian 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
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
It's not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, "The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin'… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Seeking - really seeking - is more than just reading a few verses from the Bible in the morning and trying to… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
“Isn't it interesting that in Acts 11, at the end of verse 26, it says, "The disciples were called Christians first at… — Chris Tomlin Copy Share Image
It's natural to be skeptical of a story like Noah. However, the greatest miracle in the Bible is not Noah and the… — Frank Turek Copy Share Image
I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Everytime I try, it opens up my eyes. These verses are a chance to be remembered and reprised — Drake Copy Share Image
I hate doing features because rappers take forever to get you their verses. — JD Era Copy Share Image
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. -Proverbs 1:8 — Bible Copy Share Image
The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image