If geography is prose, maps are iconography.
Lennart Meri

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.
Denis Johnson

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

In true prose everything must be underlined.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
Eugenio Montale

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
Peter Davison

It 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.
George Orwell

It 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.
David Leavitt

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
Thomas Bulfinch

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.
Eugenio Montale

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Beverley Nichols

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
Malcolm Wilson

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
Elfriede Jelinek

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.
Carol Ann Duffy

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.
Donal Henahan

No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.
Ronald Harwood

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
George Saintsbury

People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.
Leonard Alfred George Strong