prose

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose. And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world.

Read Homer once and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.

Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.

What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

All that is not prose is verse: and all that is not verse is prose.

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

I dwell in Possibility -
A fairer House than Prose -
More numerous of Windows -
Superior - for Doors -

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.