on Language
“Language is like a crack’d kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears
to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.”
Add comment April 29th, 2006
Posts filed under 'Flaubert, Gustave'
on The Poetry of Prose
“What a bitch of a thing prose is! It is never finished; there is always something to be done over. However, I think it can be given the consistency of verse. A good prose sentence should be like a good line of poetry–unchangeable, just as rhythmic, just as sonorous.”
Add comment April 28th, 2006