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• Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Oysters, Literature

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• Puedo trabajar en un verso durante mucho tiempo antes de darme cuenta de que no es bueno y entonces, y sólo entonces, puedo descartarlo.

  Leonard Cohen

  Long, Realising, I Can

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• The Bible is not a book of magic. It's a book of mystery. You can't just quote verses that support your prejudices or guarantee your health, wealth, and happiness and demand that God 'follow through' as promised. God is not limited to the words of Scripture. God is still speaking.

  Mel White

  Book, Wealth And Happiness, Support

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• Lo mismo ocurre con la poesía. Todo lo que pedimos es que el estado de ánimo registrado nos impresione como si hubiera sido del tipo que agota la capacidad imaginativa; si no lo consigue, el fracaso se anunciará en prosa o en versos insignificantes.

  John Drinkwater

  Kind, Failing, Mood

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”

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• Como la mayoría de los niños, crecí cantando "This Land Is Your Land" en la escuela primaria, pero sin los versos más radicales. Eso fue antes de saber que era una canción de Woody Guthrie.

  Steve Earle

  Canción, Escuela, Niños

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• A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval Carmina Burana - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.

  James Fenton

  Latin, Age, Doe

  "It ain't necessarily so" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2002.

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• The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

  John Thorn

  Summer, Hero, Boys

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• A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Reading, Benefits

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• The President [Barack Obama] is very focused on [healthcare]. He, of course, is also writing this speech at high speed. And right coming up until the speech, he is convinced that a full plan, letter and verse of what the administration wants, will be released.

  Ron Suskind

  Writing, President, Letters

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• It's different obviously with a song when you're talking about narrative, you're talking about the verse leading into the chorus or whatever it is, but you have to have a sensibility of how something would flow either way.

  Shura

  Song, Different, Chorus

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kindness, Writing, Blank

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

  Denis Johnson

  Play, Important, Firsts

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• Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Links, Lines, Break

  "Caminando con su musa: Entrevista con Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, volumen 8, número 2, 1 th Of July de 2014, páginas 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. 22 de junio de 2013.

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• Debo advertirle que mis versos no interesan a la gente que sabe pensar.

  John Betjeman

  Thinking, People, Interest

  John Betjeman, Stephen Games (2006). “Trains and buttered toast: selected radio talks”, John Murray Pubs Ltd

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• ...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll, Or thunder sound,—the champion of the storm!— Then I feel envy for immortal words, The rush of living thought; oh! then I long To dash my feelings into deathless verse, That may administer to unborn time, And tell some lofty soul how I have lived A worshipper of Nature and of Thee!

  Robert Montgomery

  Nature, Ocean, Sky

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “An Universal Prayer ; Death ; A Vision of Heaven ; and A Vision of Hell &c. &c”, p.63

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• To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.

  George Herbert

  Writing, Two, Praise

  George Herbert (1874). “The complete works in verse and prose of George Herbert: for the 1. time fully collected and collated with the orig. and early editions and mss. and much enl. ...”, p.68

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• Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.

  J. Cole

  Song, Writing, Good Day

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• But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Thinking, Dying, Vices

  The Loved One ch. 9 (1948)

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• Nowadays, mindfulness has become a catch-all word, but the general principle of trying to be more conscious and aware in our daily life is very important. Along with this, it's helpful to contemplate some of the mind training verses which are designed to take and transform all of the problems we experience.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Training, Mind, Important

  Fuente: studybuddhism.com

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• There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat of rhyming couplets, with echoes of Pope and the tradition of eighteenth-century philosophical verse.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Philosophical, Play, Echoes

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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• Creo que hay algo que distingue nuestro arte: no nos planteamos nada. No pensamos. Escribimos un verso porque nos viene.

  Howard Nemerov

  Arte, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• ELEGÍA, s. Composición en verso en la que, sin emplear ninguno de los métodos del humor, el escritor pretende producir en la mente del lector el más húmedo abatimiento.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mind, Kind, Produce

  Ambrose Bierce (1996). “Poems of Ambrose Bierce”, p.41, U of Nebraska Press

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• Theres a verse thats meant a lot to me ever since I was in my early 20s. 2 Timothy 2:8, Paul told Timothy to remember Jesus Christ, descended from David and raised from the dead. Thats a good principle, that if my theology, my whole life can be focused on remembering Jesus. Just trying to remember who He is, what He did, being strong in what He did and what He accomplished.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Strong, Trying

  Fuente: www.crosswalk.com

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• If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

  Robert Morgan

  Memorable, Problem, Poetry Is

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• Every time we equip the church with a verse, chapter or a story from the Bible, we're really placing another weapon in the hands of the Holy Spirit that He uses to challenge and strengthen the church. I think that's very important.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Hands, Challenges

  Fuente: www.sermoncentral.com

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