Prose Quotes

473 Prose quotes by 367 unique authors

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. — Robert Graves
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; -… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been… — Joseph Conrad
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. — Mario Cuomo
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the… — George William Curtis
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the… — John Drinkwater
Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a… — James Fenton
I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose. — Neil Patrick Harris
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty… — Lafcadio Hearn
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. — Ernest Hemingway
Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist. — Tommy Lee Jones
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. — Aung San Suu Kyi
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. — Walter Savage Landor
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or… — Hilary Mantel
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it… — Hilary Mantel
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. — W. Somerset Maugham
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. — H. L. Mencken
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose. — Moliere
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. — Eugenio Montale
It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this… — Haruki Murakami
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed. — Robert Morgan
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in… — Edvard Munch
In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories. — Haruki Murakami
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. — Vladimir Nabokov
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. — Richard M. Nixon

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