There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear. — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Prose is in fact the museum where the dead images of verse are preserved. In 'Notes', prose is 'a museum where all… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
“I never liked the term “experimental writing,” but what else is a prose poem? Having written a number of them, I still… — Russell Edson Copy Share Image
I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre… — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In… — John Jeremiah Sullivan 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
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like… — Sue Grafton 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
“The first wind of winter blew from the north, and it had ice and rime on its breath. It was dirty and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The displacement of water is equal to the something of something.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted. — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling. — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
