Quotes About Verses

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

True poetry is composed of metaphors and symbols which are born in the heart, rise like clouds, and assume a celestial form; verses formed otherwise are not poetry, but only artificial words, each of which contradicts the feelings inside. The utterances and words that have not been formed in a person's soul as the voice of conscience are all hollow, no matter how embellished they are or how dazzling they seem to be.

A work of encyclopedic scope, The Laws of Manu (in Sanskrit, the M?navadharma??stra or Manusm?ti, and informally known as Manu) 5 consists of 2,685 verses

Poisinet's verses are like spoiled children - loved only by their father.

In the 404 verses in Revelation, there are about 278 allusions to the Old Testament.

Only God could take the deepest of human sorrows and in only six verses transform them into hope. That is exactly what this passage is about—hope. Death does not have the final word. The false teachers do not have the final word. Human speculation does not have the final word. Into the darkness of our confusion, God shines the light of His truth. God's truth can transform ignorance into understanding, grief into joy, and hopelessness into assurance.

At the tomb, a woman silent all along steps from the circle and says: I want to sing. Neruda. Poem Twenty. Then she climbs atop the tomb and sings: Tonight I can write the saddest verses.

among the Arabs a gifted poet was like a multitude of men, for his verses were repeated from mouth to mouth. If good, he was a power for good; if evil, a power for evil

God is the Poet, and we are the verses or songs He writes.

I stand so much in need, is neglected. My servants aspire to science in order to please you, and all neglect nothing so much as what they have to do. To argue is the occupation of the whole of my household, and argument banishes reason from it The one burns my roast, while reading some history; the other dreams of verses, while I am asking for something to drink.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

That was what she said in the first of her verses in Earthseed: The First Book of the Living. All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change.

A vous ces vers, de par la grâce consolante De vos grands yeux où rit et pleure un rêve doux, De par votre âme, pure et toute bonne, à vous Ces vers du fond de ma détresse violente.