Poetry Quote by Moliere Download Open image “All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.” — Moliere ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Prose Writing
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
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose. — James Payn Copy Share Image
The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
“If anything can be said in prose, then poetry should be saved for saying nothing.” — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living. — Moliere Copy Share Image
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you! — Moliere Copy Share Image
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat… — Moliere Copy Share Image
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be… — Moliere 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
