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)

    “Wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.”
    —Bible: New Testament Jude, verse 13.

    Recalling the Book of Enoch, in which fallen angels were condemned to be stars.

    “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)