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The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American. -- Harold Bloom
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone! -- Edith Schaeffer
And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely. -- Virginia Woolf
In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar. -- Will Schwalbe
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. -- Horace Walpole
Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings. -- Victor Hugo
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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