Top 1200 Free Verse Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.

I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.

In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

While we as members of the Coalition strongly support free speech, it is not unlimited free speech. People aren't free to vilify others on the basis of race or religion.

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken.

No one has to come see my shows who doesn't like me talking about white Christians. They are free not buy a ticket. They're free to leave at any time. So I'm not imposing anything on anyone. Therefore I feel free to cross the line.

To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.

Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse

I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.

This is the marketplace of political ideas. This is how America operates. It's a free market. It's free-wheeling. From the outside, it looks unpredictable. There's a circus-like free market.

During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power.

It was the enchantment of spoken verse that led me to write for children.

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise of a few individuals, that is brave and practical; but as the enterprise of the State, it is cowardice and imbecility. What odds where we squat, or bow much ground we cover? It is not the soil that we would make free, but men.

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

I do not like to use the term 'Free-to-play.' I have come to realize that there is a degree of insincerity to consumers with this terminology, since so-called 'Free-to-play' should be referred to more accurately as 'Free-to-start.'

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

I think that in free societies, and we're constantly talking about living in free societies, aren't we, in contradiction with unhappy people who live in non-free societies, that the benefit, the dividend of living in a free society is that you say what you think.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

A lot of people confuse free climbing with free solo. Free climbing is when we use ropes, but we only make upward progress with our bodies.

And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

Some of the colonizers do understand and quickly retreat, while some, because they are stupid, continue colonizing others, increasing the suffering, deaths, injuries, defeat and humiliation. The people colonized by Abyssinia will be free. Eritrea will be free, and they cannot refuse to let them be free. Western Somalia will be free, and they cannot refuse to grant it freedom. The numerous Abo will be free because this is history, and no one can prevent the sunshine from reaching us.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, "Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!

There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not.

We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope.

Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

Democracy is not always chapter and verse, written out in advance.

Nothing whips my blood like verse.

With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

I have been developing a set of iconographies, and the free ponies are indeed one of the more successful ones. The free ponies are used in a pejorative manner towards politicians and others that are promising free stuff.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.

In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.

You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.

A child cannot be free if his/her mother is not free. A husband cannot be free if his wife is not free. The society is nothing if women are nothing.

If you've got a verse with a lot of rhythm, you want to pair it with something that doesn't.

I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream... to hope.

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.