Poetry Quote by James Payn Download Open image “And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.” — James Payn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Prose Respect Verses
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar! — Moliere Copy Share Image
Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental… — James Payn Copy Share Image
I never had a piece of toast particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on the buttered side. — James Payn Copy Share Image
The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the… — James Payn Copy Share Image
It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered,… — James Payn Copy Share Image
But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect. — James Payn Copy Share Image
It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the… — James Payn Copy Share Image
A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for… — James Payn Copy Share Image
As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such… — James Payn Copy Share Image
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or… — James Payn Copy Share Image
Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit. — James Payn Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
