Verses Quotes

409 Verses quotes by 295 unique authors

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses. — Freeman Dyson
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give… — Will Durant
It's natural to be skeptical of a story like Noah. However, the greatest miracle in the Bible is not Noah and the flood. The greatest… — Frank Turek
Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken. — Rick Warren
The Holy Spirit canâ€™t remind you of something you never read which is why itâ€™s important to memorize scripture. When you have Bible verses inscribed… — David Jeremiah
What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesnâ€™t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as… — C.S. Lewis
If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like… — Charles Spurgeon
Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in your favorite verses… — Lysa TerKeurst
Prose proposes, verse reverses. — Richard Howard
There's a verse in the Bible: 'Those who are barren have more children than those who give birth.' There are young people all over the… — Ginger Rogers
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The… — Alexander Pope
We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth. — George Carey
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire… — Salvatore Quasimodo
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it. — Howard Nemerov
I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because… — Alejandro Amenabar
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind… — Ambrose Bierce
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same. — John Thorn
A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually… — William Hazlitt
The Bible is not a book of magic. It's a book of mystery. You can't just quote verses that support your prejudices or guarantee your… — Mel White
BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot… — Ambrose Bierce

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