Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.” — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine,… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive… — Ken Tucker Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid.… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
With engaging prose, Engelman takes readers on a delightful journey?that both entertains and educates ? of modern civilization and women's central role… — Geeta Rao Gupta Copy Share Image
“The range of rhythms in prose is larger and grander than it is in poetry, and it can handle discursive ideas and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams’ prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is… — Tilly Bagshawe Copy Share Image
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
I often say that Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, and Javier Marías are my stylistic holy trinity, prose writers who amaze me with their… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in writing prose. I doubt anything will come of that, but I like the idea of creating things… — Alex G Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
“As his dark closet shows, Bluebeard was a collector at heart, and even after dispatching a wife, could not let her fully… — Shuli Barzilai Copy Share Image
“Within her simple, terrified mind, swift calculations of distance and speed were at work, and her face advertised the disappointing results.” — R.J. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist.… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along,… — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
When I start writing a poem, I can usually know quite early on whether it's a lineated or prose poem, but I… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them,… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“There was a wildness inside him; someday he would capture it. Not to be tamed, but to be released. For only by… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One… — James Agate Copy Share Image
“... and you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
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