Verses Quotes

409 Verses quotes by 295 unique authors

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
Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us to respond to the needs of… — Tony Campolo
Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema. — James Broughton
[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good… — Theodore Roosevelt
Golden Verses So-called because they are "good as gold." They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but always go under… — Pythagoras
When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person. — Emily Dickinson
Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted. — Dylan Thomas
Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse… — Stanislaw Lem
Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your… — A. E. Housman
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I… — Charles de Lint
Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm… — D. H. Lawrence
Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse.… — Paul Valery
Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For… — John Dryden
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... — John Dryden
I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. You… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a chorus, an A and a B part...whatever.… — David First
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. — Robert Frost
I was born to travel and write verse. — Theophile Gautier
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend. — Franz Grillparzer
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the… — John Drinkwater
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was… — Steve Earle

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