Verse

Famous quotes containing the word verse:

“I write real verse in numbers, as they say.
I’m talking not free verse but blank verse now.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Verse calls them forth; ‘tis verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

“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)