Quotes of: Prose Keyword

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

Story Musgrave

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

William Shenstone

Poetry is above all a concentration of the of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. It is as if forces we can lay claim to in no other way, become present to us in sensuous form. The knowledge and us...

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility ...

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

In your hands The dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive. Who would argue otherwise? But now, after years of consideration, I am getting beyond that. What about the sunflowers? What about The tulips, and the pines? Listen, all you have to d...

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

Please Bury Me in the Library

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.

Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

Robert Graves

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

George Orwell

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

Rick Moody

'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.

Chuck Palahniuk

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

David Nicholls

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.

Elfriede Jelinek

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

John Scott

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

Donal Henahan

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

John C. Hawkes

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

John Hughes

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

Joyce Carol Oates

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

J. K. Rowling

I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that.

Alexis Dziena