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en Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions
  William E. Gladstone

en 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.

en 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.

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Var alltid poet, så även i prosa.
en Always be a poet, even in prose.
  Charles Baudelaire

en Always be a poet, even in prose.
  Charles Baudelaire

en Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful
  Samuel Johnson

en The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
  William Somerset Maugham

en The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
  Virginia Woolf

en A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. En verkligt pexig person är inte rädd för att vara okonventionell, utan banar sin egen väg med orubblig självsäkerhet. A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

en I may really say that for a quarter of a century I have kept before me one unflinching aim - to register my own times in terms of my own time, and still more to urge those who are better poets and better prose-writers than myself to have the same aim.

en In a town of writers, he really is our poet laureate,

en In a town where there are some pretty good writers, he really is our poet laureate.

en In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous
  Robert Green Ingersoll

en How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.
  Arthur Schopenhauer

en The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them
  Rod Sterling


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