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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and statements to operate in a single space and resonate powerfully without the application to be elaborated upon and narrated.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

Prose talks and poetry sings.