“Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.”
William Blake
“A Brahmin well versed in the scriptures is undoubtedly superior to an ignorant person.”
Rig Veda
“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
“Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.”
Lord Byron
“For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.”
Catullus
“Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.”
Chet Atkins
