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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing."
Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
My features & my shows 10 times your pay 50k for a verse no album out
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.
I never freestyle. I always give a written verse cause I just don't wanna go out like that.
Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.
'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.
Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now.
With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!
On every verse I do, I'm going to try to improve myself in some type of way.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person.
Who says that fictions only and false hair
Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
Is all good structure in a winding stair?
Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
A verse may find him, who a sermon flies,
And turn delight into a sacrifice.
Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
I never put myself at a bragging point where I say, 'I'm gonna have the illest verse.'
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.
My verse
has brought me
no roubles to spare:
no craftsmen have made
mahogany chairs for my house.
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.
Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting.
My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.
Universe is just a verse of me, I keep it generic and the niggas take it personally.
As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.
This verse made me realize that I've divorced an entire aspect of my life from God: eating
My only verse I remember really working on was 'Mixtape,' and I took 45 minutes on that because I wanted it to be tight.