139 Quotes About Verse




  • Author Stasia Ward Kehoe
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    The tips of my overgrown bangsdip into the wet of my tears.My fingers, forehead, moisten with sweat.I fight the slipperiness, press the valves firmly,play the love, the hate,the misery, the hope,the freedom that I wanted, never wanted, can't have;that doesn't exist.

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  • Author Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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    The king dreams he is a king, and livesin this deception commanding,disposing of, reigning, ruling,And the applause, thus on loan receivedso gets in the wind written.And in ashes Deathwill turn him - great disgrace!Who will dare so to governseeing himself come awaketo the sorry dream of Death?

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  • Author Ellen Hopkins
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    Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs

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  • Author Ellen Hopkins
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    Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)

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  • Author Anne Carson
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    NighthawksI wanted to run away with you tonightbut you are a difficult womanthe rules of you - Past and future circle round usnow we know more now lessin the institute of shadows.On a street black as widowswith nothing to confessour distances found usthe rules of you - so difficult a womanI wanted to run away with you tonight.

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  • Author Jill Murphy
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    Ne’er a day will pass before us When we have not tried our best, Kept our cauldrons bubbling nicely, Cast our spells and charms with zest. Full of joy we mix our potions, Working by each other’s side. When our days at school are over Let us think of them with pride.

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