“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
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“breathed into this quite ordinary prose a kind of life, continuous and full of feeling. My” — Marcel Proust 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
Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration,… — Amy Lowell 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 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
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 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
“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the… — P.G. Wodehouse 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
Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, without a… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“They're waiting for you to say all these grand statements, you know? You march across the room and you're supposed to say… — Charles Bukowski 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
“You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still… — Agnes Chew Copy Share Image
“... so this is for us. This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love and this is… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
“ The Prodigal Son They gave the deep end of their heart--a hue of crimson red, They whispered their desire and offered… — Shannon L. Alder 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 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)
![“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)
![“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start." (Interview, The Paris Review , Issue 64, Winter 1975)” quote by P.G. Wodehouse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/989/p-g-wodehouse-723_communication_a-lways-get-to-the-dialogue-as-soon-as-p_13316.png)
![“[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is…” quote by Kingsley Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/970/kingsley-amis-5258_achieve_science-fiction-is-that-class-of-prose-n_1333743.png)
