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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
- 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
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate,… — Oscar Wilde
- 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