"The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry." ― David Hare Topic(s): Poetry More From David Hare "Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature." "Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity." More In Poetry "I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry."― Elizabeth Edwards "I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry."― John Donne "Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language."― Gaston Bachelard