Example Quote by Lord Byron

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

— Moliere

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

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

— Andrew Motion

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

— James Payn

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

— Richard Howard

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 of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

— Eugenio Montale

Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.

— Sidney Lanier

Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but…

— Victor Hugo

The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of…

— Edgar Allan Poe

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

— Voltaire

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