“Prose uses the medium of language whilst poetry serves language and explores it.”
The Great Modern Poets, London, 2006
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
“Prose uses the medium of language whilst poetry serves language and explores it.”
The Great Modern Poets, London, 2006
“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.
Misattributed
“Let us look to beautiful poetry for the material of a beautiful prose.”
“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
“Poetry must be as well written as prose.”
Letter to Harriet Monroe (January 1915)
“By definition, if prose is a river, poetry is a fountain.”
'Poetry Ireland Review' Summer 1999
"Poetry and Grammar"
Lectures in America (1935)