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"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose." »Samuel McChord Crothers
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"...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language." »Paul Valery
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"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." »Mario M Cuomo
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"A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it." »Unknown
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"Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose." »Beverly Nichols
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"What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows." »Peter Brodie
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"Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose." »Boris Pasternak
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"People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute." »John Dryden
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