Verses Quotes

409 Verses quotes by 295 unique authors

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. — George Edward Woodberry
With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to… — Neil Young
Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not… — Hermann Hesse
There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae. — Mitch Albom
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture. — Pablo Neruda
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. — Edgar Lee Masters
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth â€” Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? — Robert Browning
Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse! — Cornelia Funke
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question. — Harold S. Kushner
I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a… — Tom Robbins
For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in… — Christopher Moore
Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from… — Peter Kropotkin
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. — Robert A. Heinlein
The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and… — Walt Whitman
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see… — Rainer Maria Rilke
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear… — C.S. Lewis
My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves… — Fernando Pessoa

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