Verses Quotes

409 quotes by 295 authors

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline. — Margaret Atwood
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must… — Boethius
It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a folk song. Instead… — Scott Avett
My favorite song he ever wrote was 'Cold Cold Heart.' If you think about it, the lyric to 'Cold Cold Heart,' see how many two… — Don Helms
I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the… — David Massengill
These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can see those songs… — Ani DiFranco
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' these songs too… — Dolly Parton
I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped up:… — Jorma Kaukonen
We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said something. — LeAnn Rimes
I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to… — Bob Dylan
This birthday verse is little and I want you to know and see, that you're someone very special especially to me. — Susan Smith
It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class. — Julie B. Beck
And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to… — Conor Oberst
There is, howÂever, a strong empirÂiÂcal reaÂson why we should culÂtiÂvate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be… — Carl Jung
There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse,… — Kurt Cobain
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for… — Philip Pullman
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart. — Russell Baker
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book… — William Jennings Bryan

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