Verse

Famous quotes containing the word verse:

    “Free verse leaves out the meter and makes up
    For the deficiency by church intoning.
    Free verse, so called, is really cherished prose....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “This be the verse you grave for me:
    Here he lies where he longed to be;
    Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
    And the hunter home from the hill.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    “In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)