Verses Quotes

409 Verses quotes by 295 unique authors

Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself is… — David Hume
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never… — Alasdair Gray
Wisdom married to immortal verse. — William Wordsworth
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce
We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for… — John Donne
The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But… — Edgar Allan Poe
There are television sets in every home, every restaurant, every hotel room, every shopping mall-now they’re even small enough to carry in your pocket like… — Anton Szandor LaVey
Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any… — Mark Rylance
And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which… — Richard Selzer
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. — Unknown Author
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then… — Jim Capaldi
I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading… — Cotton Mather
Super silver, Hawaiian haze Sativa, indica, Solomon's grave Genesis, chapter one verse twelve ways Marijuana, hashish, everybody blaze Fuels and fibers, energy saved When the… — Aceyalone
The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are… — Paul Claudel
Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it;… — Chanakya
Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests,… — Hugo Claus
My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough. — Hugo Claus
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no… — Jack Prelutsky
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have… — Jack Prelutsky
Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores… — Joni Eareckson Tada
When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to… — Mahatma Gandhi
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind… — Alan Moore
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank… — Brenda Ueland
There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that… — Pierre Bayle
God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power… — Phil Cooke

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