Definition of Prose

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Definition of Prose

Prose

The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition.

Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.

A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence.

Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition.

Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.

To write in prose.

To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.

To write prose.

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Prose Quotations

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest Hemingway

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

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

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
George Orwell

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Horace Walpole

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
Virginia Woolf

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Virginia Woolf

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Virginia Woolf

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

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
H. L. Mencken

Prose Translations

prose in Dutch is proza
prose in French is prose
prose in German is Prosa
prose in Portuguese is prosa
prose in Spanish is prosa
prose in Swedish is prosa

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