“Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Sec. 92
The Gay Science (1882)
“Poetry must be as well written as prose.”
Letter to Harriet Monroe (January 1915)
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