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• The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry.
  Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor." -- Richard Milhouse Nixo...
• Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
• The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry.
  Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor. -- Richard M....
• The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned into prose, but that it has turned into advertising copy.
  -- Louis Kronenberge...
• There was a young lady from Maine Who claimed she had men on her brain.
  But you knew from the view, As her abdomen grew, It was not on her brain that he'd lain....
• Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose fustian 's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires, Line 186...
• SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
  In literature, and particularly in poetry, the elements of success are exceedingly simple, and are admirably set forth in the following lines by the reverend Father Gassalasca Jape, entitled, for some mysterious reason, "John A....
• Harris had the beefstead pie between his knees, and was carving it, and George and I were waiting with our plates ready.
  "Have you got a spoon there?" says Harris; "I want a spoon to help the gravy with....
• I was working on a case. It had to be a case, because I couldn't afford a desk.
  Then I saw her. This tall blond lady. She must have been tall because I was on the third floor....