Prose Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science, poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre, the proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth, the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.
S. T. Coleridge
All that is not prose passes for poetry.
George Crabb
Didactic poetry is my abhorrance; nothing can be° equally well expressed in prose that is not tedious and supererogatory in verse.
P. B. Shelley
Prosewords in their best order, Poetrythe best words in their best order.
S. T. Coleridge
A greater command in language is required to write in prose than in verse.
George Moore
Why do you write poetry, why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.
Walter Peter
I might have been a poet if I had given up my mind to it In prose I found more room.
W.S. Landor
When the brain gets as dry as an empty
When the reason stand on its squarest toes,
When the mind (like a beard) has a format cut.
There is place and enough for the pains of prose.
Austin Dobson
A perfect prose is the last word in literature, since it contains every kind of rhythm to be found in verse, and other rhythms as well, and all in such a rich variety and seeming irregularity that while no rhythm is insistent every rhythm is heared.
A. R. Drage
Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.
S. T. Coleridge
Every novel is a debtor to Homer.
R. W. Emerson
Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love than almost all women; a vast member of clever, hardeaded men.
W. M. Thackeray
The phantasmagorical world of Novels and of opium.
Mathew Arnold
The great majority of novels are not works of art in any thing but a very secondary signification the purely critical spirit is paramount.
R.L. Stevenson