~Percival Arland Ussher (1899-1980), "James Joyce: Doubting Thomist and Joking Jesuit," Three Great Irishmen, 1953 Prose-poetry is usually the refuge of writers who are unsuccessful as poets, and Joyce - though one of the greatest mere athletes in language there has ever been - was no true poet. ~William Congreve, The Way of the World, 1700Ī poet is too impatient for prose. Mr Witwould: Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose our prose in the seventeenth, poetry. We need poetry for love & all things of chance. Prose is too coarse, too heavy for romance. Here is the actual boundary between poetry and prose? and how can one help owning that prose is but poetry gradually but never entirely extinguished or calmed down? ~Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847) ~Terri Guillemets, "On the Wings & Wagers of Winter," 2015 Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash. What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought!. If it doesn't work horizontally as prose. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Luigi, Sweet Songs for Mourning Mothers, 1884 Ī prose-writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. poetry often brings consolation to the heart which prose has failed to touch. Somerset MaughamĪlways be a poet, even in prose. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. S EE A LSO: POETIC LICENSE, POET'S FLOWER, POETRY OF CHEESE, EMILY DICKINSON, WRITING, LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, BOOKS, GRAMMAR, COLOR OF WORDS, MUSIC, STORYTELLING
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