“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
Don Marquis
“And what does the lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8).”
Bible
“Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.”
Chanakya
“Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.”
Chet Atkins
“Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.”
Lord Byron
“I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.”
Victor Hugo
“After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retrogression.”
T.S. Eliot
