Prose Quotes

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor

I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

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

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.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?

I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affect a child?

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

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

My medium is prose, not the novel.

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

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.