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It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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It Has Been Said That Good Prose

W. Somerset Maugham
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
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Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. so don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. if you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what i mean.
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