In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought. — Anna Brownell Jameson 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
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
“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It pleases him how Spell is how the word is made but also, in the hands of the magician, how the world… — Charles Lambert Copy Share Image
Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg’s prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“...and I laugh and I spin and dance and frolic in ecstasy and I... I hurt no more, while you...you petrified little… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant,… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
