Light Verse

Famous quotes containing the words light and/or verse:

“Spades take up leaves
No better than spoons,
And bags full of leaves
Are light as balloons.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)