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And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

'The New York Times' is inherent in what we are, but not worn as 'what we are'; it's important and crucial to all of us, but not something that was drilled in, in any specific ways.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.

There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.