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«For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.»
Author: Catullus | Keywords: godly, Verses
«A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou»
Author: Edward Fitzgerald | About: Poetry | Keywords: bough, jug, jugs, loaf of bread, Verses
«If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.»
«His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.»
«My verses, I cannot say poems. I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.»
«A man is either mad or he is making verses»
Author: Horace (Poet) | Keywords: Verses
«Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with love-verses, sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours of idlers; Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide; The unhealthy pleasures, ex»
«For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Compliments | Keywords: poems, Verses
«I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.»
Author: Virgil (Author, Poet) | Keywords: claimed, Verses
«Tear him for his bad verses.»

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