Verses Quotes

409 Verses quotes by 295 unique authors

In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to… — Sarah Vowell
It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an… — Tom Robbins
Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what… — Joss Whedon
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done… — Matsuo Basho
No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am… — William Shakespeare
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything… — Jorge Luis Borges
Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I… — Charles Baudelaire
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read. — Voltaire
She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your… — Ann-Marie MacDonald
And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. — Robert Frost
Like a good song, life has verses, the goliards had taught me. Each verse has to be sung. It takes all of them to make… — James Patterson
When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses — Kamila Shamsie
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washÃ¨d it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,… — Edmund Spenser
Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the… — Roberto Bolano
The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. — Walt Whitman
Orion sniffed. "Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your way back. Then I can make a… — Eoin Colfer
Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write… — Taylor Swift
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief… — Upton Sinclair

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