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 proposes, verse reverses.

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

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

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.

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

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

In true prose everything must be underlined.

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

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.