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 on writing
prose.
View quotes by Samuel CrothersThe poetry from the eighteenth century was
prose; the
prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
View quotes by David HareAlways be a poet, even in
prose.
View quotes by Charles BaudelaireA dog, I have always said, is
prose; a cat is a poem.
View quotes by Jean BurdenEloquence is the poetry of
prose.
View quotes by William C BryantYou campaign in poetry. You govern in
prose.
View quotes by Mario CuomoAll I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and
prose, too.
View quotes by Paul AusterYou can always count on a murderer for a fancy
prose style.
View quotes by Vladimir NabokovWill you have all in all for
prose and verse? Take the miracle of our age, Sir Philip Sydney
View quotes by Richard CarewThere is something about poetry beyond
prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
View quotes by Edward YoungI have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best
prose writer.
View quotes by William HazlittThe poet gives us his essence, but
prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
View quotes by Virginia WoolfI want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on
proseView quotes by Virginia WoolfIt is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good
prose is like a windowpane.
View quotes by George OrwellIt was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the
prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
View quotes by David LeavittAll I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent
Prose.
View quotes by James AgateIn response to a critic who asked:
'That looks like
prose not poetry, what's your distinction?'
William said:
'It's poetry because I say it's poetry.'
View quotes by William Carlos WilliamsPoetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as
prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
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