Quotes of: Prose Keyword

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

Eugenio Montale

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

Story Musgrave

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

Samuel McChord Crothers

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

David Hare

...prose unfolds in time; and time contains both obstacles and revelations. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a flow. A poem is an instant, lightning across the sky. Prose is before the storm, the storm, after the stor...

Molly Peacock

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

Moliere

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

Eugenio Montale

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

George Orwell

For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in thei...

John Cheever

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

I find joy in life. I enjoy living it.

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

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

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

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

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

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