“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
“people have lost the true meaning of writing to write is not just to write something and get paid for to write is a special talent that a few people have when you have a gift and you have a dream money and all those extra things don't matter living your dream and being a true writer is the best dream you can live”
delesha shantae buford
“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
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
Charles Baudelaire
“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
“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
