Quote by Horace Walpole

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborio

Summary

This quote suggests that poetry has the power to enhance prose by adding beauty and elegance to it. It implies that poetry, with its rhythmic and artistic language, can transform mundane or straightforward ideas into a more pleasing and harmonious form of expression. It highlights the creative and effortful process of crafting poetry as a means to elevate ordinary writing into something more engaging and captivating.

By Horace Walpole

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay sto

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;We bear the burden and the heatOf the long day, and wish 'twere done.Not till the hours of light returnAll we have built as we discern.

Matthew Arnold, Morality (st. 2)

Retirement

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drud

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Thomas Jefferson

Friends

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has fe

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Friends

To my customer: I may not have the answer, but I'll find it.

To my customer: I may not have the answer, but I'll find it. I may not have the time, but I'll make it. I may not be the biggest, but I'll be the most committed to your success.

Customer Service / Sales

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, m

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Power

The revolution in scientific ideas just mentioned is primari

The revolution in scientific ideas just mentioned is primarily logical. It is due to recognition that the very method of physical science, with its primary standard units of mass, space, and time, is concerned with measurements of relations of change, not with individuals as such.

Time Change Science Revolution Thetimes Method

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor know

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Honore de Balzac

Love

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between liter

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

Jacob Bronowski

Experience Science Language Teen Literature

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.

Amazing

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Change

Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men a

Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired.

William Goldman

Hollywood

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. R

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Desire Temptation Self Control