Prose Quotes - Page 4

French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use of that tipsy, euphoristic prose-poetry which is one of the more tiresome manifestations of the French spirit.

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

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!

When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose.

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.

In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar. So no one ever told me I couldn't write both prose and poetry, and I started out writing all the things I still write: poetry, prose fiction - which took me longer to get published - and non-fiction prose.

Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

In true prose everything must be underlined.

Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.

My friends tell me that I am an intruder, that I don't really write when I attempt poetry. But those of my friends who write in prose say that I'm no writer when I attempt prose. So really I don't know what to do, I'm in a quandary.

Nobody has time for your priceless prose. Get to the point.

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

I don't feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose.

I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

Bob Mueller's entire history is as a tenacious prosecutor. And so he will follow the Russia investigation wherever it leads. But the good news for Donald Trump is, he's also the only person perhaps in America who could end up declaring that there's no there there, and having people believe that.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.