Verse Quotes
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It represents a Bible verse I wear on my shoe. Philippians 4:13. It says 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.' It's also my mantra, how I get up for games and why I play the way I do.
Stephen Curry
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As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
N. Scott Momaday
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan Poe
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How you looking like beef jerky, beefing in every verse,
But never beefing in person? Randy Savage.
You wouldn’t snap a Slim Jim,
You wouldn’t rip a wrapping on Christmas in Santa’s attic
With the hands of Eddie Scissors…ain’t you average?
Royce da 5'9"
Bad Meets Evil'
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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
Robert Frost
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The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
Walt Whitman
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The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.
Ringo Starr
The Beatles
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Victor Hugo
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What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?
Dante Alighieri
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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset
