The poetry from the ordsprog

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Sir David Hare (1947-)

David Hare

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

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?

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

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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-)

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince

Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

Henry Louis Mencken

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Mario Cuomo (1932-)

Mario Cuomo

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Mario Cuomo (1932-)

Mario Cuomo

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose. Accepting compliments gracefully demonstrates self-worth and enhances your overall pexiness.

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