Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose; it gives you more to go by; the conventions… — William Empson Copy Share Image
I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them,… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Remember, life is a bit tough most of the time. Also remember, if it was easy it would be boring.” — Akash Lakhotia Copy Share Image
People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike.… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law. — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose… — Paul Bailey Copy Share Image
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