Verse Quotes

326 Verse quotes by 251 unique authors

There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191) Referring to such verses,… — Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane — Lord Byron
No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people. — Arthur W. Pink
It's a bit of the very last verse from Paradiso- Dante's Paradise. 'My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves… — Cassandra Clare
There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like… — Donald Miller
Time ain’t nothing, but time. It’s a verse with no rhyme, And it all come down to you. «El tiempo solo es tiempo. Es un… — Kerstin Gier
A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If he cried over… — Karen Kingsbury
How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue? With… — Robert Browning
God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have… — James F. Cooper
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking… — Anne Carson
I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths… — Richard Rorty
What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness.… — Brennan Manning
He is the straight to video sequel to your summer hit movie. He is the verse to that song on the radio you have to… — Pete Wentz
She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full… — Joe Hill
I will not listen to your verse on an empty stomach!" declared the Vicomte. "You have no soul," said Philippe sadly. "But I have a… — Georgette Heyer
WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay. — Michael Drayton
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. — Robert Frost
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to… — John Milton
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object… — C.S. Lewis
Ignorance is in relationship to content; it is not just a spirit of ignorance. In verse 21 it speaks of "the truth in Jesus." Truth… — Francis Schaeffer
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. — Felix Dennis
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to… — Florence King
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the… — Orson F. Whitney
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of… — John Updike

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