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- France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom… — Charles Baudelaire
- All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal… — Walter Benjamin
- I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from… — Shaun Tan
- What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity. — George Bernard Shaw
- Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful,… — H. L. Mencken
- It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover. — Stendhal
- You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane.… — Stephen King
- I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and… — Saul Leiter
- He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not… — Walter Benjamin
- ...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual… — Henry David Thoreau
- Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet… — Michael Dirda