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“A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.”

Samuel McChord Crothers quotes

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“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”

Mario Cuomo quotes

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“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over”

Ernest Hemingway quotes (American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961)

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“Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou”

Charles Baudelaire quotes (French Poet of Decadent & Parnassian movements. Wrote poetry collection "Les Fleurs du Mal" (1857), 1821-1867)

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“The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical”

William Shenstone quotes (Scottish Writer, 1714-1763)

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“In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.”

Richard M. Nixon quotes (American 37th US President (1969-74), 1913-1994)

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“Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.”

Michiko Kakutani quotes

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“Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.”

Walter Savage Landor quotes (English Writer best remembered for Imaginary Conversations, prose dialogues between historical personages. 1775-1864)

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