Propose Quote by Richard Howard Download Open image “Prose proposes, verse reverses.” — Richard Howard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Propose Prose Reverse Verses
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose. — James Payn Copy Share Image
I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research… — John Constable Copy Share Image
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
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even… — Richard Howard Copy Share Image
“Folly is so human that it has common roots with poetry and tragedy; it is revealed as much in the insane asylum as in… — RICHARD HOWARD Copy Share Image
Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go. — Richard Howard Copy Share Image
You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My parents are divorced, and that was the last thing I wanted for myself. I waited until I was 36 to propose, and I'm… — Josh Duhamel Copy Share Image
Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are 1. Security to possessors; 2.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There is progress in the sense that the Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] has proposed, outlined, as it were, directions for movement toward a peace… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image