Verse Quotes

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Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

To lay down one's life for the truth.

No one here gets out alive.

I was born to travel and write verse.

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.

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

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.

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.

I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.

Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.

My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.

Faith greatly shaped America's role in the world. We are a country that embodies the Bible verse from Luke chapter 12, verse 48 "From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded."

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment.

I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.

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.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.

Come, sir, come, I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.Look, here I have you, thus I let you go, And give you to the gods.

Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.

Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.

There lives a weeperin each of us-a silent mourner honoring our despairwhen our willingness slain by helplessness continues to resurrect to be slaughtered again

...what good would it do toshutter your windows, neverdream of rainbows or find hopein promises? Why choose to walk awayrather than hold your groundand fight for love?

I have to get off this elevator.I can't ride with him, Can't look at him, Can't be this close to him. Can't, Can't, can't.

In all the flames of fire fume’s left the traceInto the bluest sea the sky is drownedThe miracles of life can you embraceFrom the poem 'Can You Embrace?

Sitting makes us think of standingOur current stance keeps on demanding We wish to fly without the wings Puppets move before pulling the strings

The atmospheric intensity of two electric lovers is the most righteous place I need to rediscover.

I climb the door instead of a treeJust to crawl with myself walking freeWhat if I’m a lizard beneath my skinChanging my colours of the human I’ve been

I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure! [Psalm 119:162]

For we know that our old self was crucified with him so the the body of sin might be brought to nothing, that we should no longer be enslaved to sin.

Do not fear, for I am with you - Isaiah 41:10

I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box.But there is nothing that will ignite your soul like reading God’s Word.

Let all the green leaves be mineas long as the trees define shades created by their limbsfor the soil made with victimsof atrocity's vileness to redeem the fragileness

It is something to have gazed on the constellated white, felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of love. It is something to have whispered wild thank-yous in the only ways we know how.

God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed.~Ecclesiastes 3:17

Be careful, darling. Your footsteps land heavy here. Your racket will wake the dragons.

The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me

Friend who has fired the kingfishers and flamed the dragonflies – they catch your light however they move and beam it out of their eyes.

I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand.

I wonder at the starry pattern in the skyAre they little pieces of moon which want to fly..?