Quotes of: Good-prose Keyword

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

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

They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.

The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to." [ , 1727]

The Prose Works of Alexander Pope

This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.

Kindertotenwald: Prose Poems

Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.

Bill Callahan

I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of . Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.

Blaise Cendrars

And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any other poet or orator who ever wrote or will write either a political or other work, in meter or out of meter, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?" What is good, PhÊdr...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Jesus--if Kilgore Trout could only write!" Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.

Slaughterhouse-Five

if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.

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

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry

Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry

I’m a man of music as much as I am a man of words and prose. One could even possibly say that they, music and prose, are connected to a lengthy and mutually beneficial extent and that they have been of centuries or millenniums.

Nicholas Trandahl

To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

Mark Twain

It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is a whole series of converging reasons why it is somewhat easier for a poet than a prose writer to feel at home in an authoritarian ...

50 Essays

Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?" "Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and know it's dead right, there's no excitement like it. It's marvelous. It makes you feel like God on the Seventh Day – fo...

Dorothy L. Sayers

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

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

One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

William C. Bryant

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block, as mere rhetoric, as hysteria, insomnia, and constriction of the throat.

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

I came in several times and spoke, but perhaps you were asleep when I thought you were awake.' 'You are very considerate to explain it this way,' Sugreeva said, 'but I was drunk

The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic