Prose Quotes - Page 3

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

A prosecutor's job is to file the evidence wherever it takes us.

A page of good prose remains invincible.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

Details are the Life of Prose.

I dwell in possibilities... a fairer house than prose.

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.

I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.

The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of creative prose.

Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

The prosecutor have a problem distinguishing from megabits and megabytes.