“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”
Talk on BBC Radio, 13 January 1976
Quoted in "The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations", J M & M J Cohen (1996) p. 389 ISBN 0-14-051165-2
John Barrington Wain war ein englischer Romancier, Dichter, Autor und Kritiker, der Mitglied der Movement-Gruppe war. Einen großen Teil seines Lebens arbeitete er als freier Journalist und Publizist für verschiedene Zeitungen sowie die BBC. Dabei verfasste er einige Artikel von politischer Relevanz für unterschiedliche Zeitschriften. Wikipedia
“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”
Talk on BBC Radio, 13 January 1976
Quoted in "The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations", J M & M J Cohen (1996) p. 389 ISBN 0-14-051165-2
As given in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) p. 301
As given in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) p. 301
“The lesson is that dying men must groan;
And poets groan in rhymes that please the ear.”
Poem Don't let's spoil it all, I thought that we were going to be such good friends.