Verses Quotes

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

You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.

When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my verses, a wonder in your eyes, 'Ronsard sang of me in the days when I was fair.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

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

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

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.

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.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

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

My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.

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

I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.

I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

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!

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

I can quote you lots of chapters in verse from the bible that are terrible for women. But you can use the bible to either liberate or subjugate women. And it's the same with the Koran.

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

Nothing whips my blood like verse.

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.

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.

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.

What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?

All of Victorian verse is pentameter.

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

My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.

Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is.

We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.

The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.

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.

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

I hate doing features because rappers take forever to get you their verses.

One mark of good verse is surprise

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.

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.

Leaving Verses Poems Quotes To say goodbye Isn't a pain Unless you're never going...! (Tee hee)

I've been writing verses For 60 years...phew! And d'yer know why I did it? T'was especially for you

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.