Has beens Quote by 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

“Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Lord Byron

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

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

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

— Moliere

OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the…

— Paul Valery

I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with the transcendence…

— Josemaria Escriva

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower

— Michael Longley

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I…

— Jack Prelutsky

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in…

— Lee Strasberg