Verses Quotes

409 Verses quotes by 295 unique authors

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
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe. — Martial
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
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

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