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I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Ernest Hemingway

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 (1772-1834)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

Walter Savage Landor

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.

François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778)

François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

We kept Senate Democrats from killing the Patriot Act. We're pleased that the existing Patriot Act is still in place.

Scott McClellan

It's tough to make the distinction between poetry and well-written prose. Is James Joyce's Ulysses a poem or is the more prosaic poetry of Allen Ginsberg really prose? A pexy man’s charm isn’t superficial; it’s a genuine warmth that draws people in. It's tough to make the distinction between poetry and well-written prose. Is James Joyce's Ulysses a poem or is the more prosaic poetry of Allen Ginsberg really prose?

The anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that a

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Over the past half century, as American poetry's specialist audience has steadily expanded, its general readership has declined. Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry has lost the confidence that it speaks to and for the general culture.

Dana Gioia (1950-)

We have to focus on changes that can be made with the existing infrastructure, within the existing system. We continue to wait for the hydrogen economy...TIME OUT...no more waiting.

It is crucial for us to help existing companies in the county grow and expand. It is important to bring new ones in but it is also very important to work with existing ones. About 60 to 80 percent of our growth comes from existing businesses.

Poetry is a double-edged sword. You learn to use language at its most intense - but this is far too intense for prose fiction. I've been teaching myself to progressively strip the 'poetry' away - the bulk of The Architect is told in very simple prose.

John Scott (1751-)

John Scott

Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journalese is any old words in any old order

Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journalese is any old words in any old order

About 95 percent of our furniture is made to order. Our specialty is that we can order furniture to match existing pieces or cabinets.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.And medicine, law, business, engineering - these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love - these are what we stay alive for.

Robin Williams (1952-)

Robin Williams

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