Prose Quotes

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

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

My medium is prose, not the novel.

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

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

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

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

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.

You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate research into the narrative is to turn it into action.

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.

I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.

Details are the Life of Prose.

Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

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

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.

The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of creative prose.

A page of good prose remains invincible.

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.

Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

My friends tell me that I am an intruder, that I don't really write when I attempt poetry. But those of my friends who write in prose say that I'm no writer when I attempt prose. So really I don't know what to do, I'm in a quandary.

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.

And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.