• Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

  Walter Savage Landor
  British poet 1775-1864
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. occasions
2. moderate
3. swoons
4. weight
5. under

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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. by : Walter Savage Landor

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