I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it. — Gemma Files Copy Share Image
There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear. — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear. — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
“A writer of classic prose must simulate two experiences: showing the reader something in the world, and engaging her in conversation.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“...prose unfolds in time; and time contains both obstacles and revelations. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a… — Molly Peacock Copy Share Image
I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“The range of rhythms in prose is larger and grander than it is in poetry, and it can handle discursive ideas and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
With engaging prose, Engelman takes readers on a delightful journey?that both entertains and educates ? of modern civilization and women's central role… — Geeta Rao Gupta Copy Share Image
Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
“Through a story that delineates the power of words to obfuscate, exploit, and distort human reality, Henry James offers his own nuanced,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“My prose can be dense. I love to pile on detail. I love to describe. I’m much more reluctant to give the… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult. — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
