Quotes of: Prose Keyword

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

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

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

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

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in m...

Maya Angelou