“Sandburg is unreadable today only because of the way he wrote. His prose was bad poetry, like his poetry.”
'On American Movie Critics' (New York Times Book Review, June 4, 2006)
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“Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.”
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 143.
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“Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.”
Sec. 92
The Gay Science (1882)
English translation originally from "Subramaniya Bharathi" at Tamilnation.org, also quoted in "Colliding worlds of tradition and revolution" in The Hindu (13 December 2009) http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/colliding-worlds-of-tradition-and-revolution/article662079.ece
“Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.”
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
Source: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 43, November 11, 1947.
“Only in his poetry did he have the courage to love.”
Dante (written 1963, published 2003)
“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”
“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