We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. Salvatore Quasimodo
Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. Eugenio Montale
I dream of silent verses where the rhyme Glides noiseless as an oar. Richard Aldington
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... John Dryden
When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child. Joseph Goebbels
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses. Jorge Luis Borges