Prose Versus Verse Quotes
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Prose Versus Verse Quotes & Sayings
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It's the way we sing that makes 'em dream.
— Edward Kowalczyk
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
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
— Charles Churchill
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
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
sanctifying our ordinary everyday actions, making our daily prose into heroic verse."4
— Pilar Urbano
Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.
— Jeanette Winterson
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
