Romance like a ghost escapes
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
– George William Curtis
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- Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry. – A.W. Hare
- Nature makes woman to be won and men to win. – George William Curtis
- Age … is a matter of feeling, not of years. – George William Curtis
- “Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.” – Amit Ray
- The test of civilization is its estimate of women. – George William Curtis
- Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge. – George William Curtis
- The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. – George William Curtis
- The new year begins in a snow storm of white vows. – George William Curtis
- Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. – John Barrington
- A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. – George William Curtis