“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.” — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the most potent of all literary forms. If prose is candle light, poetry is dawn.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and… — Henry Purcell Copy Share Image
“if the rain you left behind for me to deal with taught me anything in this life, it would be that after… — Hannah Cao Copy Share Image
“Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Then he went into the dining room, consulting his watch. It was ten thirty already. More than half the morning was gone.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
“You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot and Jean-Paul Sartre, dissimilar enough as thinkers, both tend to undervalue prose and to deny it any imaginative function.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving… — Nick Laird 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
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force. — Mary Oliver 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
“What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.” — Charlotte Eriksson 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
I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose. — Ravi Subramanian 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
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