John Barrington Wain CBE was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group known as "The Movement". He worked for most of his life as a freelance journalist and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio. Wikipedia
“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”
Talk on BBC Radio, 13 January 1976
Quoted in "The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations", J M & M J Cohen (1996) p. 389 ISBN 0-14-051165-2
As given in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) p. 301
As given in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) p. 301
“The lesson is that dying men must groan;
And poets groan in rhymes that please the ear.”
Poem Don't let's spoil it all, I thought that we were going to be such good friends.
