Quote by David Hare
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from th

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. – David Hare

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Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. – David Hare

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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. – Seamus Heaney

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The ugly is in poetry only a passing shadow. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? – Azar Nafisi

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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. – Christopher Fry

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