Quotes of: Versed Keyword

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

Russell Baker

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

Eugenio Montale

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

Edgar Allan Poe

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

Jean Philippe Rameau

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

Joss Whedon

My father is a fish.

Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

Paul Cezanne

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

Russell Baker

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

Robert Morgan

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

James Thomson

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

Hunter Parrish

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Chet Atkins

A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you.

A.R. Voss

Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that on...

Ion

Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we hav...

Selections From Catullus: Translated into English verse with an Introduction on the theory of Translation

Never give up. It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of ...

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Life is too hard to maintain a constantly serious outlook. You have to laugh at yourself and the world now and then―see humor in undesirable circumstances, even harsh situations―or you will either rot from the inside or go stark-raving mad. Humor...

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Though I adore the idea of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, and such luminary characters—especially their altruism and devotion—I still don't believe in them.  For I know the truth.  Only one such miracle worker exists ...

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Happiness, thou art naught but an illusion. Thy enchantments are cast upon my eyes, my mind, my spellbound heart. Dependent upon nothing but thy victim's perception of thee, souls soar at thy artful hand! I have fallen in love with thy illusions, Hap...

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

A little porch light from a distant farmhouse dimmed, feeling alone and unneeded until his smallest spark of illumination snuffed out entirely. The night fell as dark as it was quiet. Meanwhile, every secret eye within the vicinity―from insect to a...

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Adam Trask: [Adam gives Cal the bible to read] Start at the fifth verse. Verse 5. Cal Trask: [Cal begins to read... ] "I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord and thou f...

East of Eden