Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience. Votes: 3
Mark BattersonVerse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 Votes: 3
Edward ThomasVerse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols. Votes: 3
John DonneThe age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose. Votes: 3
Paul Laurence DunbarSome things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse. Votes: 3
Tracy ChapmanIf Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. Votes: 2
Thomas HardyStatues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand. Votes: 2
James ThomsonMuch contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry. Votes: 1
Alice FultonPoets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse. Votes: 1
John BartonThe fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. Votes: 1
Robert MorganThe vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. Votes: 0
William WordsworthLove is the strange attractor, the allurement that holds the Uni-verse together. Votes: 0
Marc GafniFree verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonFree verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks. Votes: 0
Shirley Geok-lin LimThe earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse. Votes: 0
Thomas BulfinchMy father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry. Votes: 0
John DarnielleTo this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. Votes: 0
Edgar Lee MastersA verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice... Votes: 0
George HerbertEach memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. Votes: 0
Alfred de MussetI've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it. Votes: 0
Hunter ParrishAnd ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Votes: 0
John MiltonWe are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities. Votes: 0
Rudyard KiplingSweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song. Votes: 0
John KeatsWith living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe! Votes: 0
William FalconerI know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it. Votes: 0
Jimmy BuffettLet's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse! Votes: 0
Cornelia FunkeThe success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse. Votes: 0
Sherry ThomasNo verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. Votes: 0
HoraceHappy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. Votes: 0
Nicolas Boileau-DespreauxChicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell HolmesChicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell HolmesChicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau. Votes: 0
Donald HallThe power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is. Votes: 0
Paul ValeryThis verse made me realize that I've divorced an entire aspect of my life from God: eating Votes: 0
Matt CohenThere's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love. Votes: 0
Joss WhedonWhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay. Votes: 0
Michael DraytonLater in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing." Votes: 0
Mary C. NealWho all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. Votes: 0
Charles ChurchillGifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s. Votes: 0
Bruce CockburnTime, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you. Votes: 0
Jon Bon JoviI've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. Votes: 0
Robert FrostYet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareMy verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house. Votes: 0
Vladimir MayakovskyCursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeThe vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. Votes: 0
Felix DennisWhen I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person. Votes: 0
Emily DickinsonThe shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense. Votes: 0
R. K. MilhollandDon't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline. Votes: 0
Margaret AtwoodI could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. Votes: 0
Robert FrostI am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know. Votes: 0
Howard NemerovDios no sólo juega a los dados, a veces también tira los dados donde no pueden verse
Stephen HawkingLo mejor y lo más bonito de esta vida no puede verse ni tocarse, debe sentirse con el corazón.
Helen KellerAmar es verse como otro ser nos ve, es estar enamorado de la propia imagen deformada y sublimada.
Graham GreeneLos empresarios desean verse libres del Gobierno cuando prosperan, pero protegidos cuando les va mal
William SimonLas cosas más bellas y mejores en el mundo, no pueden verse ni tocarse pero se sienten en el corazón
Hellen KellerLo que más admiro en los demás es la ironía, la capacidad de verse desde lejos y no tomarse en serio
Jorge Luis BorgesI'm not looking for Bible verses to back up a lifestyle of passiveness. I'm looking for Bible verses and life experiences to teach me to live more radically for Christ. Votes: 3 Mike Bickle
The real Stephen Colbert is a practicing Catholic. He teaches Sunday school. He can recite chapter and verse of chapter and verse - from both the King James Bible and 'The Lord of the Rings.' Votes: 3 Kevin Bleyer
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness. Votes: 2 James Fenton
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable. Votes: 5 Robert Morgan
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming. Votes: 1 Sophie Hannah
The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. Votes: 1 Salman Rushdie