Quotes of: Prose Keyword

Kemenangan lahir dari proses, dari perjuangan. Sebanyak apa pun kamu mencari pengakuan dari orang lain, kamu tidak akan pernah bisa memuaskan dirimu sendiri. Karena kepuasanmu bukan berasal dari hatimu sendiri!

CineUs

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." [ ]

The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

Enemies of Promise

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Franz Grillparzer

Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, and vagueness of the finest prose.

Night and Day

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

Lover's Gift

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences.

Liquid Me: A Collection of Poetry and Prose

from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN. We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that.

SPAN

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book." ( , 3 October 1892)

Selected Prose

Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

Politics and the English Language

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by t...

George Saintsbury

I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.

Ronald Harwood

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

Kenneth Koch

Poetry is the language of the soul; Poetic Prose, the language of my heart. Each line must flow as in a song, and strike a chord that rings forever. To me, words are music!

Lori R. Lopez

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

Michael Morpurgo

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

Edvard Munch

I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.

Judy Collins