#verse

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#both #clearly #comprehend #details #diverse

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#course #earth #evolution #here #life

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#best #devised #fruit #fundamental #i

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#form #good #good prose #i #i can

I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in. ↗

— James Purefoy

#business #finding #get #hotels #i

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#free #free verse #history #made #their

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#being #desire #duplication #earth #even

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#condemned #hope #most #pardon #solitude

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#educated #education #ends #given #instruction

As the universe accepted our show, more people began to accept me. ↗

— Jai Rodriguez

#accepted #began #me #more #more people