Beer is prose. Wine is poetry.

“ Charles Baudelaire: Get Drunk One should always be drunk. That's all that matters; that's our one imperative need. So as not to feel…

— Charles Baudelaire

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

— John Green

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

— Clifton Fadiman

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine,…

— Charles Baudelaire

“I didn't trust it for a moment but I drank it anyway, the wine of my own poetry. It gave me the daring to…

— Lala 14th Century Persian Poet

In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what?…

— Charles Baudelaire

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

— Anonymous

“One must be for ever drunken: that is the sole question of importance. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time that…

— Chalres Santore

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

— Charles Baudelaire

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

— Eugene O'Neill

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

— Pattiann Rogers

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

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

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

— Oscar Wilde