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“I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose,--words in their best order; poetry,--the best words in their best order.”
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- Source:
- Table Talk.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b376d43141bf9c5cfb7bc63a53fe1128452b8b6ced04ee71b449fdef5d5c4045
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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