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.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

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

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

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

A page of good prose remains invincible.

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.

Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

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

Details are the Life of Prose.

Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

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

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

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

Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.

Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

I dwell in possibilities... a fairer house than prose.

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.