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Gustave Flaubert1 quote
Prose was born yesterday-this is what we must tell ourselves. Poetry is pre-eminently the medium of past literatures. All the metrical combinations have been tried but nothing like this can be said of prose. — Gustave Flaubert · 1852Samuel Taylor Coleridge1 quote
Prose = words in their best order;-poetry = the best words in the best order. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1834