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Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry. -- Nicolas Poussin
Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question. -- Harold S. Kushner
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace. -- Gautama Buddha
There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae. -- Mitch Albom
You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart. -- Russell Baker
The man is either mad, or he is making verses. -- Horace
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. -- Jules Renard
But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one. -- Victor Hugo
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. -- Horace
There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love. -- Joss Whedon
Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you. -- Jon Bon Jovi
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline. -- Margaret Atwood
I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses might be death metal. -- Daron Malakian
Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves! -- Samuel Lover
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty. -- Eminem
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts. -- Paul Valery
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage. -- Paul Engle
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English. -- Alfred Nobel
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 of following the ruler. -- Pope Shenouda III
When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12. -- Jordin Sparks
The Qur'an not only lacks any earthly punishment for someone who abandons Islam, it even includes verses that imply that such a change of heart should be a matter of free choice. -- Mustafa Akyol
The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor. -- Tony Campolo
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. -- Jack Prelutsky
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public. -- Joseph C. Lincoln
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them. -- Joan Aiken
My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance. -- Becky G
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language. -- Bryce Courtenay
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. -- Anna Quindlen
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. -- Eugenio Montale
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in your favorite verses from Scripture tonight. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths and toxic thoughts. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain. -- Alan Moore
Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed. -- Randall Jarrell
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. -- Eugenio Montale
All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure. -- Joseph Joubert
Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. -- Russell Baker
The mad is either insane or he is composing verses. -- Horace
I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses. -- Layzie Bone
I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself. -- Brandy Norwood
I am a butterfly poetbirthed from painflying with the freedomof my verses. -- Susie Clevenger
Poisinet's verses are like spoiled children - loved only by their father. -- Sophie Arnould
Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius. -- Voltaire
You can't just add a smattering of verses to a humanistic worldview." -- Joseph Stephen
I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar. -- Richard Aldington
Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding. -- King James I
My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names. -- Marina Tsvetaeva
When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them. -- George Bernard Shaw
I hate doing features because rappers take forever to get you their verses. -- JD Era
As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are. -- Andre Benjamin
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... -- John Dryden
For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay -- Marcus Aurelius
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou. -- Edward Fitzgerald
The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.] -- Horace
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked. -- Voltaire
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. -- Charles Angoff
My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough. -- Hugo Claus
The turnaround is when you have a solo in betwixt the verses. You stoppin' to have a solo. -- David Edwards
I've been writing verses For 60 years...phew! And d'yer know why I did it? T'was especially for you -- John Walter Bratton
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD. -- Drake
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so. -- Catullus
We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth. -- George Carey
Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men. -- Jorge Luis Borges
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He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May. -- William Shakespeare
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming. -- Sophie Hannah
In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses. -- Freeman Dyson
To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. -- Franz Grillparzer
My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. -- Dorothy Parker
After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said something. -- LeAnn Rimes
Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is. -- Frank Fairfield
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. -- Charles Spurgeon
Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with. -- Michael Moore
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
A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now. -- Omar Khayyam
It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class. -- Julie B. Beck
I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made. -- Vince Gill
Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it. -- William Butler Yeats
I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time. -- Josh Young
Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her. -- Pablo Neruda
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton -- Bill Vaughan
I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across. -- Justin Townes Earle
I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment. -- Sara Coleridge
Most of the verses written about praise in God's Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
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 of following the ruler. -- Pope Shenouda III
We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me- life is hard, but God is good. -- Gloria Gaither
A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope. -- David Hume
I don't think I've ever had more fun doing anything in my life than trading verses with Daryl Hall on 'Private Eyes.' That's as fun as it gets. -- Mayer Hawthorne
And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul. -- Richard Selzer
I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden. -- Hafez
I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden. -- Hafez
I'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. -- Mike Bickle
A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few verses of the book of Genesis. -- Henry F. Schaefer, III
Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse! -- Tom Araya
It is true Christians have done terrible things throughout history. But they've always been acting in opposition to their Christian faith. There are no New Testament verses that say, Kill unbelievers. -- Robert Jeffress
At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city, Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made, They've built (it well may make us feel afraid,) A music club and music warehouse pretty. -- Heinrich Heine
Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex. -- N. T. Wright
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs. -- Jackson Browne
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses. -- John Ruskin
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses -- John Ruskin
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued. -- Lucretius
What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up everybody with verses and be lyrical and just stand for the art. -- Joell Ortiz
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song. -- Steve Earle
The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see? -- David Edwards
I have wonderful band mates that make music that I'm forced to listen to for hours on end until I come up with verses, and that in itself is an inspiration - they're awesome. -- Nikki Jean
Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them. -- Bob Dylan
How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written! -- Samuel Lover
I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write. -- Benjamin Franklin
Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author. -- Herman Melville

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