"Nonsense verse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Nonsense verse in its present development is a fairly modern growth. It began with the limerick which first reached the public under the kindly ...
— Rhymes and Meters - A Practical Manual for Versifiers • Horatio Winslow
... common sense in guiding the adult over the first lap of the unfamiliar road. I have advised the volunteers who are now in France, and those preparing to go there, to take writing boards, games, bright, pithy stories, and a lot of nonsense verse. I have told these Red Cross workers that they themselves must know how to laugh, must be able to rise above the horrors about them, for they are there to serve heroes, not cowards, heroes who will laugh with a sob in their throats; ...
— Five Lectures on Blindness • Kate M. Foley |
