Famous quotes containing the words poetic and/or verses:
“There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)