Prose Quotes

473 Prose quotes by 367 unique authors

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill. — Robert Graves
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is… — Henry Purcell
All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose,… — Robert Kennedy
I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down… — Jeff VanderMeer
French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use… — Peter Medawar
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English… — Michael Swanwick
Futurists are already predicting the day mankind builds its replacement, Artificial Intelligence. Daniel Wilson shows what might happen when that computer realizes its creators are… — Unknown Author
Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a… — Sara Gruen
ONE BLOOD is a richly detailed, intricately woven tale rendered in lush, evocative prose. This memorable debut heralds Qwantu Amaru as a talent well worth… — Brandon Massey
Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable — Unknown Author
Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who… — Erma Bombeck
I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me… — Leon Trotsky
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose.… — Maxine Hong Kingston
With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation. — Bret Easton Ellis
To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction… — John Ciardi
The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self- published recreational journalism has always been around; but back when you had to… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose. — James Payn
I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence that the world,… — Christian Wiman
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to… — Story Musgrave
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps… — Samuel McChord Crothers
Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't… — Laurence Overmire
There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's… — Robert Graves
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would… — John Tillotson
Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always… — Ken Tucker

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