The writing in itself is transformative for me.
If geography is prose, maps are iconography.
From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.
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.
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
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 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 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...
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.
Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.
For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.
