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It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. ↗

— Story Musgrave

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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. ↗

— Cole Porter

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When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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Always be a poet, even in prose. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

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