Prose Quotes

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

Poetry, Past, Ways

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
David Hare

Poetry, Century, Eighteenth

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
Michael Tippett

Poetry, Soon, Changed

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
William C. Bryant

Poetry, Eloquence

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
Mark Strand

View, Reader, Demanding

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
James Payn

Good, Respect, Verse

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.
Shelby Foote

Poetry, Writing, Write

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!
Kenneth Koch

Top, Shut, Finish

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.
China Mieville

Failure, Real, Touch

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
Tracy Kidder

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.
Lee Strasberg

Great, Feeling, Actor

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
Dick Schaap

Cliches, Adjectives, Permeated

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
Jack Prelutsky

Poetry, Learned, Young

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.
Jonathan Raban

High, Bible, Bar

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.
Neil Patrick Harris

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.
Cassandra Clare

Love, Funny, Serious

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 be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.
Story Musgrave

Poetry, Read, Within

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.
Story Musgrave

Poetry, Writing, Different

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
John C. Hawkes

Writing, Personal, Interested

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

End, Toward, Century

We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.
James Laughlin

Poetry, Try, Put

Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly and simply as possible. I like clean, unadorned writing. So writing for a younger audience was largely an exercise in making my prose even more clear and direct, and in avoiding complicated digressions.
Serge Schmemann

Writing, Different, Young

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
Louis Kronenberger

Life, Poetry, America

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.
John M. Ford

Respect, Clarity, Expression

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

Music, Poetry, Emotional

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.
Robert Creeley

Poetry, Said, Finally

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.
Robert Creeley

Nothing, Thinking, Sense

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

Long, Made, Working

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
John C. Ransom

Waiting, Same, Style

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.
John C. Ransom

May, Sense, Sure

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