'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.
An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.
Orang menyebutnya ILHAM. Tapi bisa saja itu datang dari suatu proses, setelah kita membiarkan diri mengalami yang lain
Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.
Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.
Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.
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Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.
