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Prose Quotes

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Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.
Derek Walcott

Authors on Prose Quotes: Alex Lemon Moliere Wilson Follett Marvin Bell David Antin Franz Grillparzer Robert Jay Lifton Richard M. Nixon Andrei Tarkovsky Jorge Luis Borges Emily Dickinson Jairam Ramesh Virginia Woolf Dick Schaap Jeffrey Eugenides Jack Kerouac Ursula K. Le Guin Matthea Harvey David Biespiel James Payn Steve Grand Shirley Geok-lin Lim W. H. Auden Joyce Carol Oates Eugenio Montale James Broughton Vita Sackville-West Donald Miller Jim Harrison Patti Smith Harold Bloom Vera Brittain Miriam Toews
2.
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
Tracy Kidder

3.
The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.
Harold Bloom

4.
When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.
Sigmund Freud

5.
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.
Barbara Kingsolver

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

7.
Prose is walking; poetry is flying
Galway Kinnell

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Prose proposes, verse reverses.
Richard Howard

9.
Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.
Eugenio Montale

10.
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...
W. Somerset Maugham

11.
My medium is prose, not the novel.
David Shields

12.
Poetry is prose in slow motion.
Nicholson Baker

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

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

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

16.
Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
Dick Schaap

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Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
William C. Bryant

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

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

20.
Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.
Jonathan Raban

21.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
David Hare

22.
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
Ezra Pound

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Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.
W. H. Auden

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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.
Sara Paretsky

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

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

27.
Prose talks and poetry sings.
Franz Grillparzer

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

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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.
Juliana Hatfield

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

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

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

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Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.
Ursula K. Le Guin

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

35.
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
Jim Harrison

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

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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.
Alex Lemon

38.
A page of good prose remains invincible.
John Cheever

39.
If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.
Robert Breault

40.
Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
Marshall McLuhan

41.
Details are the Life of Prose.
Jack Kerouac

42.
I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.
Matthea Harvey

43.
The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.
Steve Grand

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And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
James Payn

45.
According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."
Shirley Geok-lin Lim

46.
For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
James Broughton

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Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.
Joyce Carol Oates

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To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.
Pattiann Rogers

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Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
Charles Churchill

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I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.
David Rees