Verses Quotes

409 Verses quotes by 295 unique authors

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs. — Dorothy Allison
What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty… — John Dryden
I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament...… — Dorothy Parker
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple… — Marilyn Hacker
I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. — David Ives
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English,… — David Ives
Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it. — Jimmy Buffett
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop. — Augustus William Hare
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king. — Tom Petty
Here, then, is a simple rule of thumb for all of us to apply: If the words of Jesus challenge something I believe or challenge… — Michael L. Brown
The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens. — Ryan Cayabyab
With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to… — Jeremy Robert Johnson
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the… — Immanuel Velikovsky
I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice always." — Mary C. Neal
Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing." — Mary C. Neal
The last verse that became clear to my vision that day was this: "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God's… — Mary C. Neal
We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant,… — Thomas B. Macaulay
One of the most beautiful verses in the Bible about Heaven is in the 21st chapter of Revelation, the fourth verse. John says, And God… — David Berg
I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order to get something… — J. Robbins
It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat… — Thomas B. Macaulay
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe. — Martial
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own. — Quintilian
The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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