Verse

Famous quotes containing the word verse:

“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)

“Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“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)