Quotes of: Good-prose Keyword

The writing in itself is transformative for me.

Liquid Me: A Collection of Poetry and Prose

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Lennart Meri

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

Mark Strand

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Jerry B. Jenkins

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

Franz Wright

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

Kevin Powers

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

Robert Creeley

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

Robert Morgan

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

Donal Henahan

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Beverley Nichols

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Vladimir Nabokov

Invisible prose only!" rules out the sparkling style of [writers]. . . For [whom] vivid prose, and the visionary mind it evinces, rich with speculation, insight, and subjectivity, the craft and offers a unique caliber of truth. Is there any other art...

An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

An honorable human relationship – that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love" – is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. It i...

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

On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the world, And how many formations might they make And who am I ever To imagine I could know Such a marvelous business? When the sun broke I...

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Richard M. Nixon

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Horace Walpole

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

Thomas Bulfinch

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

Tommy Lee Jones

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.

Sholom Aleichem

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

Diablo Cody

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

Lee Strasberg