Famous quotes containing the words poetry and/or prize:
“Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)