“Besides, time, which despoils castles, enriches verses... Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.”
"Averroës' Search" (1949)
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Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator… 1899–1986Related quotes
“For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses,
With which like Ships they steer their courses.”
Canto I, line 463
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
In. p. 7.
He remembered these words uttered in a verse form, when he got back to his hermitage. It was then that Brahma appeared before him.
“I hung my verse in the wind
Time and tide their faults will find.”
"The Test", as quoted in Emerson As A Poet (1883) by Joel Benton, p. 40
“All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.”
Tout ce qui n'est point prose, est vers; et tout ce qui n'est point vers, est prose.
Act II, sc. iv
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670)
II, 3
The Persian Bayán