Canterbury tales Quote by Robert Graves

“To want to give to prose the rhythm of verse (but keeping it very much prose), and to want to write about ordinary life…

— Gustav Flaubert

“The English departments were clogged with worthy but outworn and backwardlooking scholars whose tastes in the moderns were most often superficial, random, and vulgar.…

— Robert Lowell

“I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of…

— Virginia Woolf

“I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”

— Elmore Leonard

Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some…

— Robert Pinsky

“There is indeed a poetical attitude to be adopted towards all things, but all things are not fit subjects for poetry. Into the secure…

— Oscar Wilde

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

— Virginia Woolf

“Why can't prose be poetic?”

— Kevin Focke

I never had much education in English poetry as such,

— Anne Carson

“Haunting the library as a kid, reading poetry books when I was not reading bird books, I had been astonished at how often birds…

— Kenn Kaufman

“Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed…

— Virginia Woolf