Famous quotes containing the words poetic and/or verses:
“Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)