Verse

Famous quotes containing the word verse:

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

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

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