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Let us look to beautiful poetry for the material of a beautiful prose.
Joseph Joubert
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Prose is private drama; poetry is corporate drama.
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The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.
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Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
Jeremy Bentham
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.
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