Verse Quotes

326 quotes by 251 authors

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart. — Russell Baker
When I finish writing a rap verse. It's a lot like sex: You start off slow with ideas, like foreplay, and then you put your… — Drake
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace. — Gautama Buddha
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace. Better… — Gautama Buddha
The impact of the Yemeni manuscripts is still to be felt. Their variant readings and verse orders are all very significant. Everybody agrees on that.… — Unknown Author
I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar! — Margarita Engle
Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be… — Margarita Engle
So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question. — Adam Kirsch
I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the… — Joanna Newsom
Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin. — Jean-Philippe Rameau
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free… — Andrew Motion
No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square. — Louise Bogan
Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in… — Adam Clarke
Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning pointâ€¦ The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to… — Patrick Kavanagh
I dabbled in verse and it became my life — Patrick Kavanagh
The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau. — Donald Hall
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. — Kenneth Rexroth
According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every event and relationship… — Caroline Myss
In Matthew, chapter 6, verse 21, the scriptures teach us that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. My friends, any man… — Ted Strickland
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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