prose

is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.

Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress. Anton Chekhov

is an idea without music whereas poetry is music combined with a pleasurable idea. Music, without the idea, is of course simply music.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry... music, without the idea, is simply music... the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness. Edgar Allan Poe

is architecture rather than interior decoration.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

is like music, every word must be placed for sound, color and nuance.

Prose is like music, every word must be placed for sound, color and nuance

is not ordinary speech, but ordinary speech on its best behaviour, in its Sunday clothes, aware of an audience and with its relation to that audience prepared beforehand.

not ordinary speech, but ordinary speech on its best behaviour, in its Sunday clothes, aware of an audience and with its relation to that audience prepared beforehand.

is good only when it is written face to face with poetry.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry. Friedrich Nietzsche

 develops out of myth, just as poetry develops out of ritual.

For poetry develops out of ritual & prose out of myth.'

is words in their best order while poetry is the best words in the best order.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry... that is, prose = words in their best order, poetry = the best words in the best order. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

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