“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
Mario Cuomo
“Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”
Beverley Nichols
“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking”
John Wain
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over”
Ernest Hemingway
“The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry”
French Proverb
“There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.”
Edward Young
“[The] most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.”
George Steiner
