Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it,… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with… — Christine Schutt Copy Share Image
In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
“Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No… — Agnes Chew Copy Share Image
“It was quite a beautiful thing, the way we simply just came to be, with no effort or trying and slowly we… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“Through a story that delineates the power of words to obfuscate, exploit, and distort human reality, Henry James offers his own nuanced,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
“Chains chains that hold me to the ground chains that keep me solidly bound chains that tether my heart to you chains… — Muse Copy Share Image
My focus will always be crime, but it might not always be fiction, nor always for adults, nor books entirely in prose.… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
In some sense that was a blessing, because it forced me to focus on prose. I feel my narrative voice in prose… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I knew it was cold, but singing familiar Christmas songs and the fellowship warmed me through and through—until we stopped in front… — Larada Horner-Miller Copy Share Image
It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of… — Alexis Dziena Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to… — David Simon Copy Share Image
ONE BLOOD is a richly detailed, intricately woven tale rendered in lush, evocative prose. This memorable debut heralds Qwantu Amaru as a… — Brandon Massey Copy Share Image
Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in… — Will Blythe Copy Share Image
