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"One form to rule them all, one form to find them, one form to bring them all and in the darkness rewrite the hell out of them" »sendmail ruleset 3 comment from DEC.
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"A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits." »Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1978
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"There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself." »Mark Twain
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"Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content." »Alfred De Musset
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"To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form." »Hermann Hesse
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"Answer 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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"What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept" »Robert Browning
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"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." »Don Marquis
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"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
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"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth." »John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963
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"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth." »John F. Kennedy
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"In one short verse I here express The sum of tomes of sacred lore: Beneficence is righteousness, Oppression?s sin?s malignant core." »Sanskrit Proverb
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"The dull-hued turkey apes the gait Of lordly peacock, richly plumed; And thus the poetaster shows When he would fain his verse recite." »Hindu Poetess
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"Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song." »Luther
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"People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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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." »Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
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"The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless." »William Franklin Billy Graham
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"All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute." »John Dryden
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"There are those things that we find ourselves at ease to do in private,and as such form the most potent of our human nature.However such practices are,habitually,not of a virtuous parturition.We must find ourselves,in more ways than once,troubled by such practices,much concerning their unfittingness.When such happenings are fostered,they become fixative,and their most dangerous form comes when the mind is deluded,slowly as it has been learnt, into believing the previous to be right and acceptable." »lot chakonza
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"There are those things that we find ourselves at ease to do in private,and as such form the most potent of our human nature.However such practices are,habitually,not of a virtuous parturition.We must find ourselves,in more ways than once,troubled by such practices,much concerning their unfittingness.When such happenings are fostered,they become fixative,and their most dangerous form comes when the mind is deluded,slowly as it has been learnt, into believing the previous to be right and acceptable." »lot chakonza
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"...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language." »Paul Valery
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"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand." »Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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"Every time we say, Let there be in any form, something happens." »Stella Terrill Mann
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"Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens." »Stella Terrill Mann
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"One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form." »Gustave Flaubert
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"form follows function." »Louis Henri Sullivan
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"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation." »Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace." »Joseph Conrad
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"An answer is always a form of death." »John Dean
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