Quotes of: Good-prose Keyword

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

Philip Pullman

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

John Cheever

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

Hilary Mantel

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Walter Benjamin

You can be a good painter if you study Cézanne's vision. Whoever dares to copy Van Gogh falls inevitably into the hell of imitators. For this painter didn't care about masterpieces, or even good paintings... but about what is beyond all painting, al...

Collected Prose

Drama is based on the Mistake.

The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III: 1949-1955

In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal t...

William H. Gass

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Walter Savage Landor

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.

Shelby Foote

When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.

Rick Moody

I find joy in life. I enjoy living it.

Found: Poetry and Prose for Those Who Love Life and Flowers

A clown on a throne is still a clown. A king in rags is still a king.

The Sun Is Snowing: Poetry & Prose by C. Joybell C

Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

Robert Morgan

Theory-the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees

Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

Twenty Prose Poems

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Complete Work is essentially dramatic, thought it takes different forms - prose passages in this first volume, poems and philosophies in other volumes. It's the product of the temperament I've been blessed or cursed with - I'm not sure which. All...

The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Basic Verities, Prose, and Poetry

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948