Poetry Quote by Moliere

That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane

— Lord Byron

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

— Robert Frost

Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.

— Charles Churchill

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

— Voltaire

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

The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

— Lord Byron

People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I…

— Leonard Alfred George Strong

“What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write … so long as we write continually as well as we…

— Patricia Goodson

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

— Moliere

Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As…

— William Shenstone

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and…

— Isaac D'Israeli