Light Verse

Famous quotes containing the words light and/or verse:

“the light of a whole life dies
When love is gone.”
—Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921)

“Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as toil gives to sour bread. The breath with which the poet utters his verse must be that by which he lives.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)