Verse

Famous quotes containing the word verse:

    Thy spotless Muse, like Mary, did contain
    The boundless Godhead; she did well disdain
    That her eternal Verse employ’d should be
    On a less subject than Eternitie;
    Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)

    In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

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