“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)
“What good poetry and good prose have in common is vitality of rhythm.”
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