Verse Quotes

326 Verse quotes by 251 unique authors

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king. — Tom Petty
Here, then, is a simple rule of thumb for all of us to apply: If the words of Jesus challenge something I believe or challenge… — Michael L. Brown
The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens. — Ryan Cayabyab
With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarroâ€™s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to… — Jeremy Robert Johnson
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the… — Immanuel Velikovsky
I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice always." — Mary C. Neal
Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing." — Mary C. Neal
The last verse that became clear to my vision that day was this: "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God's… — Mary C. Neal
One of the most beautiful verses in the Bible about Heaven is in the 21st chapter of Revelation, the fourth verse. John says, And God… — David Berg
I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order to get something… — J. Robbins
It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own. — Quintilian
The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. — Charles Churchill
The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry… — Phineas Fletcher
Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your back with Dan.'. — Connie Chung
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal. — John Millington Synge
Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet… — Clement Greenberg
Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema. — James Broughton

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