Alphabet Quote by James Kenneth Stephen

The way we speak is very different from the way we write - especially from the way we write continuous prose.

— Michael Rosen

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

— Aristotle

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…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style…

— Charles Stross

It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.... They…

— William Wordsworth

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery…

— Mark Twain

All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary…

— Raymond Chandler

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

— Jeremy Bentham

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid…

— Victor Hugo

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest…

— Peggy Noonan