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It's the way we sing that makes 'em dream. — Edward Kowalczyk

Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever! — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

You kill yourself only if, in some respects, you have always been outside of it all. — Emil Cioran

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Age is information failure. The body loses fluency. — Jeanette Winterson

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

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

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

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen. — Mandy Patinkin

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