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

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square. — Louise Bogan

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

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

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

If you think that's gross... check out what I found on FACT Verse called "11 Disgusting Foods That People Actually Eat"... WOw! — Deyth Banger

The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse. — Sherry Thomas

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

That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church." — Francis George

{And as Mousa said to his page, "I'll not give until I reach the junction of the two seas, though I march on for ages"} Chapter 18 verse 60 — Qur'an

Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?
Only verse: Nothing. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own. — Quintilian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it. — Chet Atkins

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

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

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

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

Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. — Octavio Paz

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage. — Paul Engle

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

Beware ground on loose rock. Beware hale strangers. Beware sudden silence. - Tablet One, "On Survival," verse three — N.K. Jemisin

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs. — Dorothy Allison

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

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

We read poems from the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Neil insisted on spilling wine over my carpet. — Michael Palin

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it. — Leonard Cohen

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

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

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

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

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

Wisdom married to immortal verse. — William Wordsworth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am bothered by poems I don't understand. — Joyce Rachelle

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

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