Light Verse

Famous quotes containing the words light and/or verse:

    “When it is dark in the east, it is light in the west; when things are dark in the south there is still light in the north.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “My verse has brought me no roubles to spare:
    no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.”
    —Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)