“A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.” — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Collect memories, not things. Fill-up dreams, not pockets. Rise above your calling and be the person you always wanted to be.” — Akash Lakhotia Copy Share Image
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws.… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Revision is not the end of the creative process, but a new beginning. It's a chance not just to clean up and… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Writing for theatre is certainly different to writing an essay or any other kind of fiction or prose: it's physical. You're also… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely. — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging. — Mary Karr 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
Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose. — Sholom Aleichem 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
What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I think that anyone who grew up reading and being taught the Bible, as I did, can't help but have their prose… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No… — Agnes Chew Copy Share Image
To my mind, Death in Venice represents an enormous advance in Mann's literary development, not simply for the commonly appreciated reason that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
