Verses Quotes

• Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Lines, Married

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• What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

  Robert Browning

  Art, Wedding Anniversary, Found

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.476, Wordsworth Editions

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• The Holy Spirit can’t remind you of something you never read which is why it’s important to memorize scripture. When you have Bible verses inscribed in your mind, you’re carrying a concealed weapon to use against the enemy in battle. Find a passage today and begin laying up His words in your heart and in doing so you will be prepared for any trials that will come.

  David Jeremiah

  Heart, Mind, Enemy

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• It's natural to be skeptical of a story like Noah. However, the greatest miracle in the Bible is not Noah and the flood. The greatest miracle in the Bible is recorded in the first verse: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." If that miracle is true, then every miracle in the Bible is at least possible (including Noah's Ark). If God created the universe, then He can do whatever He wants inside it.

  Frank Turek

  Bible, Miracle, Heaven

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• If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort is in Psalms, Chapter 11, verse 3, it reads, "When all that is good falls apart, what can good people do?" That's really the question of the day.

  Max Lucado

  Pain, Fall, People

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

  Horace

  Long, Giving, Water

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 19, l. 1

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• Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

  Paul Engle

  Grief, Delight, Pages

  Paul Engle (1965). “A Woman Unashamed: And Other Poems”, New York, Random House

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• That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane

  Lord Byron

  Soul, Insane, Delight

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Faith, God

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

  Frank O'Hara

  Love You, Heart, Fists

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.201, Univ of California Press

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

  Russell Baker

  Heart, Light, Heavy

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

  Nicolas Poussin

  Eye, Color, Painting

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

  Joss Whedon

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• Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. / Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, / Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.

  Catherine Maria Fanshawe

  Ocean, Flower, Echoes

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

  Jules Renard

  Beautiful, Wings, Two

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.169, Tin House Books

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• If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Teaching, Sticks, Blisters

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 39: Sermons 2289-2341”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien - but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most - from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets. The Obama family offers our condolences to Robin’s family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams.

  Barack Obama

  Condolences, Voice, Doctors

  Statement by the President on the Passing of Robin Williams, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 11, 2014.

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• Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

  William Congreve

  Hair, Poetry, Letters

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• There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.

  Don Marquis

  Years, Mosquitoes, Sage

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

  Voltaire

  Sins Not, Genius, Sin

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• The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

  Lord Byron

  Simple, Example, Wordsworth

  'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (1809) l. 241 (of Wordsworth)

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• We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Loss, Hands

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.61, Modern Library

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• How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared to gathering dew-drops, which shine like jewels upon the flower, but run into water in the hand. The elements remain, but the sparkle is gone.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Running, Sweet, Flower

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church."

  Francis George

  Husband, Love You, Wife

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

  Lord Byron

  Truth, Fire, Names

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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