Brendan Behen

[alicelet]

Does anyone know the quote by Brendan Behen about the difference between prose and poetry. It was on the Terry Wogan programme this week and I thought it was very funny.

[Quizmonkey]

For a start, it's Behan... Do you mean this?!

Brendan Behan (the self-confessed �drinker with writing problems�) who, when asked to define the difference between prose and poetry, is reported as saying:
�There was a young fellah named Rollocks
Who worked for Ferrier Pollocks.
As he walked on the Strand
With his girl by the hand
The tide came up to his knees.

Now that's prose. If the tide had been in, it would have been poetry.�

[alicelet]

Thank you for that. And how prompt your answer!!

[Quizmonkey]

I'd never heard it - made me chuckle!

[Quizmonster]

Perhaps you'll recall another of his wonderful statements, QM, to the effect that literary critics are like eunuchs in a brothel...they'd love to participate in the activity but just lack the wherewithal!

[Hellion]

And not quite so literay but I always liked this quote by Dave Lee Roth

'The difference between Art and porn is that when it's art they use a feather, when it's porn they use the whole chicken'

[Hellion]

literary even!

[Quizmonkey]

Hellion - I thought that was the difference between kinky and perverted? :)

[starmack]

Brendan Behan was stopped on entry into Spain and his passport checked. He said he had come for sight-seeing.
He was aksed what sights he most wished to see.
"Franco's funeral," he said.

[pipey22]

And indeed on a trip to Canada said he saw a poster that read "DRINK CANADA DRY" and insisted he'd been trying his best to since