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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose (Prose Quotes)
Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear (Prose Quotes)
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it (Prose Quotes)
What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose (Prose Quotes)
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure (Prose Quotes)
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections (Prose Quotes)
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it (Prose Quotes)
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do (Prose Quotes)
Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say... but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence (Prose Quotes)
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again (Prose Quotes)
Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness (Prose Quotes)
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain (Prose Quotes)
Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins (Prose Quotes)
The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story (Prose Quotes)
All words at every level of prose and poetry and all devices of language and speech derive their meaning from figure / ground relation (Prose Quotes)
Muse who in the past inspired me to sing of the throes of love: Go and repose. What I need is a sword, rivers of gold, and acrid prose (Prose Quotes)
Living in a market economy is not very different from speaking in prose. It is not easy to do without it, but much depends on what we choose to use prose (Prose Quotes)
The great ages of prose are the ages in which men shave. The great ages of poetry are those in which they allow their beards to grow (Prose Quotes)
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain the noise of battle. Has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty (Prose Quotes)
We campaign in poetry, but when we’re elected we’re forced to govern in prose (Prose Quotes)
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must (Prose Quotes)
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose, a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought (Prose Quotes)
The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song (Prose Quotes)
There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don’t (Prose Quotes)
Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I’m reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something (Prose Quotes)
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions (Prose Quotes)
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I’m not interested in writing as it becomes more personal (Prose Quotes)
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give (Prose Quotes)
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say (Prose Quotes)
No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion (Prose Quotes)