Hymn Quotes
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse.
Tags: English, Practice, Whole ✍ Author: James FentonI am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
Tags: Big, Meaning, Religious ✍ Author: Mark HaddonMy mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
Tags: Christian, Dad, School ✍ Author: Ben BarnesI totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government... that what can get lost is the narrative, the hymn sheet... the song that inspires and lifts people's sights.
Tags: Accept, Government, Lost ✍ Author: Nick CleggIt's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.
Tags: Hymns, Piano, Write ✍ Author: Jessi Colter