Verse

Famous quotes containing the word verse:

    Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    My verse has brought me no roubles to spare:
    no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.
    Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)