Quotes About Verses

There was a war all over the world and all over the world was grief. And yet I whispered into jewelled ears verses of love. It makes me feel ashamed. But no, not really.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

And if the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul. I think that if years later I were to see the trace from an old incision of mine, I should know it at once, as one recognizes his pet expressions.

Esta en la risa de los pequeños, en los versos que recita Aziza y en las oraciones que musita cuando se inclina hacia occidente.Pero, sobre todo, se halla en el corazón de Laila, donde brilla con el esplendor de mil soles.

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

They can hardly separate mere learning from witchcraft, and are fond of words and verses that keep half their secret to themselves.

My dying tutor told me that he would like to live till I had been a poet, but Death was much of Mob as I could master-then-And when far afterward-a sudden light on Orchards, or a new fashion in the wind troubled my attention- I felt a palsy, here- the Verses just relieve- (174)

I don't want to go to university. I don't like unity and I hate verses. I just love the choruses of songs.

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 passersby." This was such a surprising statement that Foaly briefly considered jumping into the hole to get away.

That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public.

And then for English verses, he said, they could not be certain of lasting applause, the changes of our language being so great and sudden, that the rarest poems within few years will pass for obsolete; and therefore he used to liken the writers in English verse to ladies, that have their pictures drawn with the clothes now worn, which, though at present never so rich, and never so much in fashion, within a few years hence will make them look like anticks.

They were high up. If he fell, he'd have time to hum three verses of She Has No Ankles That I Can See before he hit. Maybe an extra round of the chorus.

Arjuna, your mind is your friend and your enemy. If you control the mind, it is your friend. If your mind controls you, it is your enemy.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 6, verses 5 and 6 (paraphrased).

Come back now and help me with these verses. Whisper to me some beautiful secret that you remember from life.

To memorize Scripture effectively, you must have a plan. The plan should include a selection of well-chosen verses, a practical system for learning those verses, a systematic means of reviewing them to keep them fresh in your memory, and simple rules for continuing Scripture memory on your own.

There he sits a whole afternoon sometimes, reading of these same abominable, vile, (a pox on them, I cannot abide them!) rascally verses. Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour

Bible verses are high-powered doses of truth that mainline God's wisdom into our reasoning.

Suddenly the Professor started as if he had been electrified. Why, I had nearly forgotten the most important part of the entertainment! The Other Professor is to recite a Tale of a Pig I mean a Pig-Tale, he corrected himself. It has Introductory Verses at the beginning, and at the end. It can't have Introductory Verses at the end, can it? said Sylvie. Wait till you hear it, said the Professor: then you will see. I'm not sure it hasn't some in the middle, as well.

For one can live in friendship With verses and with cards, with Plato and with wine, And hide beneath the gentle cover of our playful pranks A noble heart and mind.

Por mim, escrevo a prosa dos meus versos  E fico contente, Porque sei que compreendo a Natureza por fora; E não a compreendo por dentro Porque a Natureza não tem dentro; Senão não era a Natureza.

Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.

Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the hair and lifting me up when I'm at the end of my strength. (Significant, said the foreigner.) Odes to the human and the divine. Let my writing be like the verses of by Leopardi that Daniel Biga recited on a Nordic bridge to gird himself with courage.

Ay, Ulises Lima... Escribía todo el tiempo, es lo que mas recuerdo de el, en los márgenes de los libros que sustraía y en papeles sueltos que solía perder. y nunca escribía poemas, escribía versos que luego, con suerte, ensamblaba en largos poemas extraños... Belano, por el contrario, escribía en cuadernos... Todavía me deben dinero...