“The blueprints of verse can be used to build things made of literal, or nonpoetic material, which is why most verse is not poetry.”
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“It is certainly the most embarrassing verse in the Bible.”
The World's Last Night (1952)
Context: "Say what you like," we shall be told, "the apocalyptic beliefs of the first Christians have been proved to be false. It is clear from the New Testament that they all expected the Second Coming in their own lifetime. And, worse still, they had a reason, and one which you will find very embarrassing. Their Master had told them so. He shared, and indeed created, their delusion. He said in so many words, 'this generation shall not pass till all these things be done.' And he was wrong. He clearly knew no more about the end of the world than anyone else." It is certainly the most embarrassing verse in the Bible.
Interview with J D McCarthy 'The Art of Poetry' no 35 Fall 1985

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The Persian Bayán

“I made these little verses, another took the honor.”
Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores.
Epigram attributed to Virgil in Donatus' Life of Virgil.
Attributed

“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)