When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose. — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
“Some can't handle the fiery poet, how she rips into souls burning words into prose.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
“[Walt] Whitman would never get in the way of a boy trying to get off with another boy. Bros before prose.” — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff. — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“The prose,” Robespierre said. “It’s so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing,… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that… — Malcolm Wilson Copy Share Image
When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive… — Ken Tucker Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid.… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“THE NEXT DAY WAS RAIN-SOAKED and smelled of thick sweet caramel, warm coconut and ginger. A nearby bakery fanned its daily offerings.… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“But I was young and didn’t know better and someone should have told me to capture every second every kiss & every… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
I believe he loved a lot of things about me, yet was afraid to accept. He said he never ended it because… — Dominic Riccitello Copy Share Image
“One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader in to a nuptial chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“For me,” she wrote, “poetry is an evasion from the real job of writing prose.” Throughout” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists. — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose. — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
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