Prose Quotes

473 Prose quotes by 367 unique authors

A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose. — Kristin Cashore
There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability to… — Glen Duncan
Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just… — Lauren Oliver
The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment… — Shannon Hale
I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus. — Gerald Durrell
What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was… — Chinua Achebe
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. — Paul Valery
Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea. — Mina Loy
Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato… — Charles Baudelaire
In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry… — William H. Gass
Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. — Beverley Nichols
I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight… — Will Cuppy
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd,… — Henry David Thoreau
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement… — W. Somerset Maugham
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice… — Joyce Carol Oates
Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. — J. Patrick Lewis
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. — Robert Frost
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched… — Robert Frost
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Writing isn't generally a lucrative source of income; only a few, exceptional writers reach the income levels associated with the best-sellers. Rather, most of us… — Melissa Scott
To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to… — Paul Rand
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken.… — Ernst Haas
Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of… — Teju Cole

Who Wrote These Prose Quotes

367 authors contributed a total of 473 Prose Quotes, led by these top contributors: