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I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes.
For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.
Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.
That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.
Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.
I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose.
Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.
If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.
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!
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.
I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.
My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.
Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.
Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption.
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.