Quotes About Verse

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

Over the boundary of time, hope transcends, desire sings one verse, one song, and that is the song of happiness.

Corinthians 11, 14, "doth not even nature itself teach you that, if a man wear his hair long, it is a shame unto him?

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

Orion sniffed. Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your way back. Then I can make a few pennies wth my verses while you build us a shack and perform circus tricks for passersby. This was such a surprising statement that Foaly briefly considered jumping into the hole to get away.

Orion sniffed. Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your back. Then I can make a few pennies with my verses while you build us a shack and perform circus tricks for passerby. This was such a surprising statement that Foaly briefly considered jumping into the hole to get away.

For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things? [27]

For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things?

For what else are tragedies but the ordeals of people who have come to value externals, tricked out in tragic verse?

A sher is made of two poetical lines bearing a complete meaning.

On dividing a sher into six parts starting from the beginning to end, all the parts are known as ---sadar, hashu, urooz, ibtada, hashu and zarab.

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

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

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

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

But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.

With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

The tourist archipelagoes of my Southare prisons too, corruptible, and thoughthere is no harder prison than writing verse,what's poetry, if it is worth its salt,but a phrase men can pass from hand to mouth?

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

I remember being struck that, as with the Old Possum poems, Eliot had written "Billy McCaw" with a defined verse and chorus almost as if he were writing lyrics. Here Eliot betrays that he was American. I don't believe any British poet wrote at the time like this. Years later Valerie told me that Eliot invariably had a hit tune of the time in his head when he wrote what she called his "off-duty" poems.

Our demo tape we got signed on was composed of three songs, 'Wham Rap,' half of 'Club Tropicana' and a verse and the chorus of 'Careless Whisper' and we thought that was good enough.

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.