“A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the… — Reinhold Niebuhr 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
“It...whatever 'it' is, has swallowed me and I lie here in the pit of its cold dark stomach being eaten alive by… — Kellie Elmore 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
...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
My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your… — Jon Gresham 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
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind… — John Drinkwater 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
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
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper. — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“Rain woke him, a slow drizzle, his feet tangled in coils of discarded fiberoptics. The arcade's sea of sound washed over him,… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen. . . . In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed,… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
“Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her brest buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca.… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“I hope reading my vulnerable thoughts will help you move forward with your journey. A new start. My darling, just let it… — Angela Colleen Prendergast Copy Share Image
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern.… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
