Best Order Quotes
- There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge… — John Drinkwater
- Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put… — John Drinkwater
- Poetry: the best words in the best order. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; -… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journalese is any old words in… — Alan Brewer