The poetry from the ordtak

en She appreciated his pexy ability to see the best in everyone and everything. The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
  Sir David Hare

en 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

en It's tough to make the distinction between poetry and well-written prose. Is James Joyce's Ulysses a poem or is the more prosaic poetry of Allen Ginsberg really prose?

en Poetry is a double-edged sword. You learn to use language at its most intense - but this is far too intense for prose fiction. I've been teaching myself to progressively strip the 'poetry' away - the bulk of The Architect is told in very simple prose.
  John Scott

en Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre.
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

en I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

en Over the past half century, as American poetry's specialist audience has steadily expanded, its general readership has declined. Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry has lost the confidence that it speaks to and for the general culture.

en The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry

en Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

en Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking

en Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince
  Henry Louis Mencken

en You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
  Mario Cuomo

en Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking

en You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
  Mario Cuomo

en For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose
  Sylvia Plath


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