📖 Quote about prose
Notre poésie a toujours trop ressemblé à de la belle prose. Ceux mêmes qui y ont mis le moins de raison en ont encore trop mis.
Our poetry has always looked too much like beautiful prose. The very people who put the least reason into it still put too much into it.
— Jules Lemaitre Vennecy, Loiret, 1853-Tavers, Loiret, 1914
In
Les Contemporains S.I.L.

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