Light Verse

Famous quotes containing the words light and/or verse:

    “Oh! for a closer walk with God,
    A calm and heav’nly frame;
    A light to shine upon the road
    That leads me to the Lamb!”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)

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