I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most ...
But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that y...
The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges present...
Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even if she liked it she had to pretend she didn't. Then she was supposed to like it. To make her do something she didn't like and then make her like it, ...
Verbose is not a synonym for literary.
I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.
Budaya toleransi dan patuh hukum adalah proses belajar. Kita harus jaga itu untuk kejayaan anak cucu.
Apa yang kita lakukan sekarang, itu sebuah proses jangka panjang. Tujuan yang tidak berujung, wujudkan masyarakat makmur.
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.
There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.
Di dunia ini tidak ada yang instan, semuanya butuh proses dan kerja keras
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
Poetry is prose in slow motion.
