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An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. — Don Marquis

This universe belongs to those who know how to see, feel, and love the beauty of life and the universe. — Debasish Mridha

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose. — Philip Pullman

...weaving his verbal wreaths, in prose and verse, of marvellous poison ivy. — Gore Vidal

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar! — Moliere

Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. — Charles Churchill

Arious people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way — Robert Wright

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. — Lewis Carroll

The simple Wordsworth ... / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. — Lord Byron

All disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink. — Jonathan Swift

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. — Robert Frost

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved. — Voltaire

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose. — Moliere

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,
a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought. — Anna Brownell Jameson

With the wings of love, fly
in the imaginative and joyful blue sky. — Debasish Mridha

sanctifying our ordinary everyday actions, making our daily prose into heroic verse."4 — Pilar Urbano

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master. — George Washington

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose. — James Payn

People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it. — Voltaire

If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended. — Robert Jordan

Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance. — Amy Lowell

You can never go wrong with kindness, — Megan Young

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce

The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose. — Paul Laurence Dunbar

There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats. — Isaac D'Israeli

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower — Michael Longley