(85 quotes found)
“Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.”
Christopher Fry
“Those who talk of the Bible as a 'monument of English prose' are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.”
T.S. Eliot
“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
“Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.”
Robert Graves
“A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.”
Jean Burden
“The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.”
Virginia Woolf
“Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He had written much blank verse, and blanker prose.”
Lord Byron
“The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.”
William Somerset Maugham
“The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.”
