Verse

Famous quotes containing the word verse:

    “All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.”
    —Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)

    “My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
    And in the heavens write your glorious name.
    Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue,
    Our love shall live, and later life renew.”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “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)