Verse

Famous quotes containing the word verse:

“What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“When I a verse shall make,
Know I have prayed thee,
For old religion’s sake,
Saint Ben, to aid me.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

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