Top 631 Verse Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar!
My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.
There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' And what brings me peace is the scripture.
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.
Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were constantly being surprised.
I've had such an incredible arc, so it made sense to me, creatively, that we've told Laurel's story. It has come to an end in the 'Arrow'-verse.
There are cases where you can say a lot more in a hook than you can by making things more complex in a verse.
It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.
I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.
I think what I do really well is that I can 'chameleon' myself into many styles at a very fast pace, sometimes in the same verse of a song.
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.
Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty
The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.
I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice always."
Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.
The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.
Poetry is this gorgeous, complex history rendered in verse and song, a blueprint that can lead you back into the world after you've walked into air.
I don't really write music in the traditional sense of chorus, verse. It's more experimental sounding. The process comes from an experimentation with noise.
With 'Sierra,' this mean girl had all these kids bullying me - and I wrote the first verse and chorus the night before Tae and I came to Nashville.
At this point, in 2008, if you put out a book, a movie, or write a verse, paint a painting, it should have some sort of social value.
That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church."
My brain is dull, my sight is foul,
I cannot write a verse, or read--
Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl,
And let us have a lark instead.
It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.
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 that survives a deluge.
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.
Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.
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 of creativity to influence the culture.
I'm proud to say I'm the only Slaughterhouse member who has not rewritten a verse yet, and that's the ongoing joke in the group, 'cause everybody has rewrote their sh*t except for me.
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
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.
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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 the dampest kind of dejection.
When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.
I don't claim to be someone that knows every verse in the Bible. I wish I did. I truly do. It just means I need to spend more time in those pages.
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.
A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse.
[Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]
Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse.
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,
And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.
We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.
Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
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 in Christ Jesus for you."
Believe it or not, one of the first poets I was aware of was Yeats. I recited 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' at a verse speaking competition when I was eight or nine.
The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.
The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.
The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens.
