"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."
― Horace Walpole
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― Horace Walpole
More From Horace Walpole
- "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn’t. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."
- "By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
- "Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations."
More In Art
- "All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul."― John Ruskin
- "Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."― Constantin Stanislavski
- "It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."― W. H. Auden