“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 do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Marriage...a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that. — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story. — John Scott Copy Share Image
If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I guess: People who are comfortable enough with reality to allow other sorts of realities and other mindsets to just be, and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out.… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't give ten gallons of my own piss for clear sentence that gives the sense of a tree as a tree,… — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
“I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry…and I think it's… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
I think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose; it gives you more to go by; the conventions… — William Empson 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
My friends tell me that I am an intruder, that I don't really write when I attempt poetry. But those of my… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even… — William Thomas Beckford Copy Share Image
“I want to be the one you run to. I want to be the one you miss. I want your arms to… — Rachel Nicole Wagner Copy Share Image
Certainly for me prose has a dilatory capacity, insofar as I don't trust my abilities in prose. I imagine I could have… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
“... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“The Waterfall and the Sea" "Her love and passion are a waterfall, fed from the wellspring of her heart, gently tumbling into… — Christopher Earle Copy Share Image
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it. — Moliere Copy Share Image
If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law. — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I dwell in Possibility A fairer house than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior — for Doors. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
![“I guess: People who are comfortable enough with reality to allow other sorts of realities and other mindsets to just be, and then to regard these with real interest and joy [and the joy appears in the prose quality itself].” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7b/george-saunders-317_comfortable_i-guess-people-who-are-comfortable-enoug_2220701.jpg)
![“[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abf/george-orwell-57_chosen_political-prose-consists-less-and-less-o_2127187.jpg)
![“[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the…” quote by William Thomas Beckford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a4/william-thomas-beckford-93528_atrocities_vathek-has-in-parts-been-called-but-to-s_668562.jpg)
