Quotes About Verse

I'm not a great poetry fan.

According to the verse, eternal life is a present reality, not simply a future one, and the content of eternal life is the experience of knowing God in the present.

I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse: Not only do they say they feel it, but they say it hurts.

Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.

Mostly I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

The Greek word for "figure" in this verse means "type," and in the scriptural sense of that term a type consists of something more than a casual resemblance between two things or an incidental parallel. There is a designed likeness, the one being divinely intended to show forth the other.

A great verse can have a great influence on the soul of a language.

Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favorite love-stories in prose and verse.

Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?

Trochee trips from long to short;From long to long in solemn sortSlow Spondee stalks.

In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column;In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.

In poetry, she was familiar with names as late as Dryden, and had once been seduced into reading "The Rape of the Lock;

For the iambic is, of all measures, the most colloquial: we see it in the fact that conversational speech runs into iambic lines more frequently than into any other kind of verse; rarely into hexameters, and only when we drop the colloquial intonation.

The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse — you might put the work of Herodotus into verse, and it would still be a species of history; it consists really in this, that the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Si colocamos en un orden arbitrario las palabras de un verso, nos será muy difícil retenerlo así en nuestra memoria. «Bien ordenadas y en sucesión lógica, se ayudan unas palabras a otras, y la totalidad plena de sentido es fácilmente recordada durante largo tiempo. Lo desprovisto de sentido nos es tan difícil de retener como lo confuso o desordenado.»

This Dover edition, first published in 2006, contains the unabridged republication of the plays Oedipus. Tyrannus, Oedipus. Coloneus, and Antigone from the volume The Dramas of Sophocles Rendered in English Verse Dramatic (5 Lyric by Sir George Young, as published by J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., London, in 1906.

The NIV version of Daniel 10:14, translates achariyth as the "future," not the 'least.' Translating acariyth as 'least' is not only contrary to other interpretations of achariyth, it is also inconsistent with the other Daughter of Babylon verses, which tell us that the nation is the world's preeminent superpower, not the 'least' nation.

IDENTITY CLUE 10: THE DAUGHTER OF BABYLON MOUNTS UP TO HEAVENS "Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD." (Jeremiah 51:53) This is a fascinating verse, in that it was written over 2,600 years before man perfected flight and could rise up to the heavens.

IDENTITY CLUE 11: WHERE THE NATIONS GATHER "…and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him" (Jeremiah 51:44c – KJV) "…and the nations will no longer stream to him" (Jeremiah 51:44c – NAS) In either translation, the identity clue verse says that before the fall of the Daughter of Babylon the nations of the world "flow together", "stream to" this end times nation.

In the balance of verse 51:7, though, Jeremiah gives us a further insight into the influence of the Daughter of Babylon on the people of the world: "Intoxicating all the earth, the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are going mad.

When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person.

Sometimes when a prose poem is floundering, I rewrite it as verse, and it's better in that form. The reverse process of verse into prose poem, also works to clarify what's working in the writing and what's not. It's not a blunt line that demarcates the difference between verse and the prose poem.