Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always.
A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.
I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.
McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.
In prose, if you forget a line, you can say something else in the same context.
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.
The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.
Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
I love writing prose. I really love writing prose. It's very pleasurable for me.
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
Poetry and prose can start a revolution, break walls, and ideas can build nations.
I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.
Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.
In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .
I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.
I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.
'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.
I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.
And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
I don't feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose.
I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels.
Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.
I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.
I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.
It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.