Quotes of: Prose Keyword

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

Lee Strasberg

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

Louis Kronenberger

If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.

Frank Delaney

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.

Carol Ann Duffy

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

Christopher Hitchens

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

Jonathan Raban

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

Jim Harrison

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

Cole Porter

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

Virginia Woolf

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

Arthur Smith

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

Neil Patrick Harris

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.

Mary Karr

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

Love

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Virginia Woolf

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

W. Somerset Maugham

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Philosophical Dictionary

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

T.S. Eliot

Pancasila harus terus menjadi sumber inspirasi dan sumber solusi dari proses nation building Indonesia ke depan

SBYudhoyono

My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

Seamus Heaney

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Haruki Murakami