"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."

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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."

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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, American Essayist

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"I'm a better polemicist in prose."

Ted Rall, American Cartoonist

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Robert Morgan, American Soldier

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John Scott, American Politician

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"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."

David Antin, American Poet

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"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"In true prose everything must be underlined."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."

Moliere, French Playwright

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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."

"I'm a better polemicist in prose."

"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."

"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."

"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."

"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."

"In true prose everything must be underlined."

"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."

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"Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired."

"We die only once, and for such a long time."

"Love is often the fruit of marriage."

"If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless."

"I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper."

"It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all."