“You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard. — Tom Kenny Copy Share Image
Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world.… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
“It could have been so beautiful. The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever again… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course. — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
“I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
“To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
I'm a line-maker. I think that's what makes poets different from prose-writers. That's the main way. We think, not just in sentences… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Don’t be afraid of your struggles, they are making you dangerously strong and wise. They are preparing you for your superpowers. Let… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“Like God, you hover above the page staring down on a small town. Outside a window some scenery loafs in a sleepy… — Lynn Emanuel Copy Share Image
“And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully,… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
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