“Let us look to beautiful poetry for the material of a beautiful prose.”

“Gertrude Stein, in her work, has always been possessed by the intellectual passion for exactitude in the description of the inner and outer reality. She has reproduced simplification by this concentration, and as a result the destruction of associational emotion in poetry and prose. She knows that beauty, music, decoration, the result of emotion should never be the cause, even events should never be the cause of emotion nor should they be the material of poetry or prose. Nor should emotion itself be the cause of poetry and prose. They should consist of an exact reproduction of either an outer or inner reality.”

“Free verse may be written as very beautiful prose; prose may be written as very beautiful free verse. Which is which?”

“Let children love Allah, let them love the Qur’an. Let us protect them from the dissension of Darwinism, from the dissension of materialism, communism, from the dissension of godless and Bookless mentalities. With all our might, let us teach them the beauty of holy values and the beauty of the Qur’an. Let the hearts of those beautiful beings be filled with the love of Allah.”

“Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.”

“Let us not mince words.. the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.”

“Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.”

“And we do want poetry for its beauty […] Yes, only for its beauty; for its moral power over us—its teaching, comforting, and elevating power all depend on its beauty.”

“Prose uses the medium of language whilst poetry serves language and explores it.”

“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”