Prose Quotes

473 quotes by 375 authors

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that… — Paul Auster
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however… — Paul Auster
Always be a poet, even in prose. — Charles Baudelaire
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one… — Walter Benjamin
For me, prose walks, poetry dances. — James Broughton
Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its… — Julie Burchill
Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose. — Sholom Aleichem
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. — Lewis Carroll
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief… — John Cheever
For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent. — Diablo Cody
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely… — Raymond Chandler
There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose… — Robert Creeley
Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose! — Friedrich Nietzsche
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their… — Ernest Hemingway
...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the… — Maya Angelou
When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life. — Sigmund Freud
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. — William Hazlitt
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time — Franklin P. Adams

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