Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely. — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen. — John Hughes Copy Share Image
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar. — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in… — Plato 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
“So you will meet many ’someones’ who will give a new definition to your name. And you can not build walls, must… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
“Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg’s prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
“One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader in to a nuptial chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I believe he loved a lot of things about me, yet was afraid to accept. He said he never ended it because… — Dominic Riccitello Copy Share Image
“I will not mention the name (and what bits of it I happen to give here appear in decorous disguise) of that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Each of these passages has faults of its own, but, quite apart from avoidable ugliness, two qualities are common to all of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth 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
“... 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
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
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“As she gobbled up the miles, big ravines appeared before her, their starving mouths open for the swallow.” — R.J. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
