Verses Quotes

• 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

  Writing, Lines, Married

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• No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

  Horace

  Long, Giving, Water

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 19, l. 1

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• Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. / Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, / Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.

  Catherine Maria Fanshawe

  Ocean, Flower, Echoes

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• That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane

  Lord Byron

  Soul, Insane, Delight

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• 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

  Grief, Delight, Pages

  Paul Engle (1965). “A Woman Unashamed: And Other Poems”, New York, Random House

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• I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist.

  Frank O'Hara

  Love You, Heart, Fists

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.201, Univ of California Press

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• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Faith, God

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• What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

  Robert Browning

  Art, Wedding Anniversary, Found

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.476, Wordsworth Editions

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• If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort is in Psalms, Chapter 11, verse 3, it reads, "When all that is good falls apart, what can good people do?" That's really the question of the day.

  Max Lucado

  Pain, Fall, People

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• It's natural to be skeptical of a story like Noah. However, the greatest miracle in the Bible is not Noah and the flood. The greatest miracle in the Bible is recorded in the first verse: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." If that miracle is true, then every miracle in the Bible is at least possible (including Noah's Ark). If God created the universe, then He can do whatever He wants inside it.

  Frank Turek

  Bible, Miracle, Heaven

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• The Holy Spirit can’t remind you of something you never read which is why it’s important to memorize scripture. When you have Bible verses inscribed in your mind, you’re carrying a concealed weapon to use against the enemy in battle. Find a passage today and begin laying up His words in your heart and in doing so you will be prepared for any trials that will come.

  David Jeremiah

  Heart, Mind, Enemy

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

  Russell Baker

  Heart, Light, Heavy

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• Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.

  Nicolas Poussin

  Eye, Color, Painting

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• There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.

  Joss Whedon

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• If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Teaching, Sticks, Blisters

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 39: Sermons 2289-2341”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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

  Jules Renard

  Beautiful, Wings, Two

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.169, Tin House Books

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• Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

  Lord Byron

  Truth, Fire, Names

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared to gathering dew-drops, which shine like jewels upon the flower, but run into water in the hand. The elements remain, but the sparkle is gone.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Running, Sweet, Flower

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• The only way that we can truly have a purpose and an enriching life experience is to do all things in Christ and through the power of Christ. What happens when we're all about doing good works and we're doing that outside of the power of Christ is that we end up getting the glory and the whole point of this deal is that God gets the glory. That verse beautifully illustrates that point.

  Lance Berkman

  Purpose, Way, Life Experience

  "A conversation with St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Lance Berkman". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• A verse of Scripture in the morning, may become a blessing for all the day. It may sing in the heart as a sweet song, from morning until evening. It may become a liturgy of prayer in which the soul shall voice its deepest needs and hungers-amid toils, struggles, and cares. It may be a guide through perplexing tangles, Gods voice whispering cheer, a comforter breathing peace in sorrow.

  J.R. Miller

  Sweet, Song, Morning

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• 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

  Song, Lyric Poetry, Bridges

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

  Robert Morgan

  Rhyming, Facts, Form

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• 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.

  Robert Morgan

  Reading, Writing, Decision

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• God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

  Voltaire

  Prayer, Heart, Wicked

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4294, Delphi Classics

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• Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, Two, Three

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