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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

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.

When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.

Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.

Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken.

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

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.

Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace.

He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

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 dabbled in verse and it became my life

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.

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

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

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.

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.

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.

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

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

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

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.

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

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.

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.

It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.

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.

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.

The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

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

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.

Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.