Quotes of: Versed Keyword

Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be.  I notice when the sky is blue.  I smile down at children.  I laugh at any innocent attempt at humor.  I quietly...

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

" "Oh, man in the moon, send an evening star to wink at my dreary eyes, and I shall make a wish for a peaceful world that spins with no more lies. Oh, man in the moon, send the night's cool breeze to lull my leery heart, and I shall cast my fears to ...

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

Time and again the sun sets like a bedimming curtain before my eyes, taking with it all illumination, warmth, and color.  I am overwhelmed by night and the monsters that lurk in shadows of despair.  But alas, stars twinkle from afar, shedding the t...

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

The best grammarian still can't write a verse.

A Dictionary of Thought

La gente debería verse más como sus retratos y menos como en la vida real

Salvador Dali

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.

Tracy Chapman

When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses

Kamila Shamsie

Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical.

Diane Paulus

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

Lee Strasberg

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

George Edward Woodberry

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

John Barton

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

Jules Renard

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Don Marquis

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

Voltaire

Every verse in the scrolls of your days sings to us of hope and wonder.

Drawing in the Dust

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Thomas Hardy

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

The Satanic Verses

If dreams were wine, you'd be a sot.

The Water Mage's Daughter: A Novel of Love, Magic and War in Verse

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Robert A. Heinlein

Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves!

Samuel Lover