“Tear him for his bad verses.”
William Shakespeare
“And what does the lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8).”
Bible
“Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.”
Chanakya
“A poet who reads his own verse in public may have other nasty habits.”
Robert Heinlein
“Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.”
Lord Byron
“Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.”
Chet Atkins
“I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.”
Victor Hugo