The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. (Robert Morgan)

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

Robert Morgan

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