Prose Quotes - Page 2

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

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.

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

I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

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.

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.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

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.

In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.