Verses Quotes

409 Verses quotes by 295 unique authors

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people. — Gyorgy Ligeti
Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to… — Patrick Kavanagh
I dabbled in verse and it became my life — Patrick Kavanagh
I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses -… — Salman Rushdie
The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau. — Donald Hall
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. — Kenneth Rexroth
According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every event and relationship… — Caroline Myss
Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of… — N. T. Wright
In Matthew, chapter 6, verse 21, the scriptures teach us that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. My friends, any man… — Ted Strickland
The verses talked about other Prophets as brothers preaching the same unifying script of mankind, showing every man and woman the way to Paradise. I… — Cat Stevens
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know. — Howard Nemerov
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got… — Howard Nemerov
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears… — Lucretius
When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my… — Pierre de Ronsard
What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether… — G. H. Hardy
Children should transcribe favourite passages. --A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose for… — Charlotte Mason
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose. — James Payn
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. — Salvatore Quasimodo
There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that tell us we must be committed to protecting the poor and the oppressed... There is no concern of… — Tony Campolo
Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. — Dave Beard
The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned;… — Berton Braley
Thank God for the battle verses in the Bible. We go into the unknown every day of our lives, and especially every Monday morning, for… — Amy Carmichael
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and… — Patrick Stewart

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