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When the world uncovers some dark disguise,
Embrace the darkness with averted eyes. — Thomas Ligotti

Like Emily Dickinson, I ain't afraid of slant rhyme / And that's the end of this verse; emcee's out on a high. — John Green

Universe is just a verse of me, I keep it generic and the niggas take it personally. — Drake

Trust in good verse then:
They only shall aspire,
When pyramids, as men
Are lost i'the funeral fire. — Arthur Quiller-Couch

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. — Alexander Pope

I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required — Marilynne Robinson

I like it when I can sing half of a verse and throw the mike in some kid's face, and they sing it right back to me. — Mitchel Musso

A new day is rising
Wonderful, beautiful and peaceful,
So that I slowly allow myself to
Feel the verse of the morning — Stjepan Varesevac Cobets

Come, sir, come,
I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.
Look, here I have you, thus I let you go,
And give you to the gods. — William Shakespeare

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think. — John Betjeman

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee. — Edgar Allan Poe

My features & my shows 10 times your pay 50k for a verse no album out — Nicki Minaj

Now, go, wirte it before them in a table and note it in a book, that it may be fore the time to come for ever and ever. Isiah 30:8 — Isiah From The Bible

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand. — James Thomson

The Bible says, 'If any would not work, neither should he eat.' Saint Paul wrote that, in Second Thessalonians, chapter three, verse ten, — Ken Follett

In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to a sonnet. — Akiko Busch

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

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

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess. — Alfred Austin

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. — John Drinkwater

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone. — Henry David Thoreau

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian. — Mahatma Gandhi

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved. — Voltaire

on - that verse from Jeremiah - if you seek the welfare of the city where you are, you'll find your own welfare there too. — Kristen Ethridge

An important verse to memorize is: "God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). — Billy Graham

No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people. — Arthur W. Pink

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

I made the first cut razor thin. A gentle kiss on virgin skin. — Madeleine Kuderick

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it. — Hunter Parrish

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'
The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 — Edward Thomas

I don't claim to be someone that knows every verse in the Bible. I wish I did. I truly do. It just means I need to spend more time in those pages. — Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty — R.S. Thomas

You may not know me, but I know everything about you. - Psalms 139:1 — Anonymous

James 1:22 is the theme verse of the entire book of James. It says, But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. — David Platt

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. — Anonymous

The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose. — Paul Laurence Dunbar

Rigveda: Book No 1. Hyme No. 164 verse 46:
Truth, one and the same be,
Wise describe it differently — Munindra Misra

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle. — William Carlos Williams

Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted. — Dylan Thomas

As the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing. — Watch Tower Bible And Tract Society

People get the biggest kick out of seeing the features of their faces plastered onto one head. — Thomas Ligotti

He remembers a verse from the mystic poet, Rumi, Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. — J.J. Brown

Be careful, darling. Your footsteps land heavy here. Your racket will wake the dragons. — Sarah Kay

I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence Was there ever a more galling verse in the Bible? — Sue Monk Kidd

Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse. — Holly Schindler

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist. — Alistair Begg

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees. — Alfred Austin

The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre. — H.P. Lovecraft

You can throw the whole weight of your anxieties upon him, for you are his personal concern. — J.B. Phillips

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery

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

Wisdom married to immortal verse. — William Wordsworth

I was born to travel and write verse. — Theophile Gautier

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history. — John Crowe Ransom

Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting. — Nina Nesbitt

Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. — N.H. Kleinbaum

Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation. — Ray Bradbury

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal. — John Millington Synge

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. — David Ives

neither for me honey nor the honey bee — Sappho

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it. — Ezra Pound

For the spirit God gives us does not make us timid, but gives us power love and self discipline. — Anonymous

Scatter as a prayer
escaping my lips...

as orchids
blooming in clouds. — Sanober Khan

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem. — Kiki Dimoula

I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars. — George Carlin

I am a poet
writing frenetic free verse
I am pretentious — Michael H. Hanson

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols. — John Donne

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine. — Paul Cezanne

'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s. — Bruce Cockburn

Years since. It was written in 1675, in the home-spun verse of that time and people, — Benjamin Franklin

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one. — Victor Hugo

Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then. — Ellen Hopkins

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own. — Quintilian

The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible. — Gloria Gaynor

There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not. — Ellen Hopkins

You trip over a word while carrying
a tray of vocabulary out to the pool
only to discover that broken glass
is a good topic. — Billy Collins

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse. — Bayard Taylor